UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA 
AT   LOS  ANGELES 


GIFT  OF 

Larry   Laughlin 


No.  1913 


ORDNANCE 
PROPERTY  REGULATIONS 


1917 


MILITARY  PUBLISHING  CO. 

42  BROADWAY 

NEW  YORK 


(062.12/5)  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

OFFICE  OF  THE  CHIEF  OF  ORDNANCE, 

Washington,  May  28,  1917. 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL, 

United  States  Army. 

SIR:  1.  There  is  submitted  herewith,  for  approva*  by  the  honorable 
the  Secretary  of  War,  as  provided  for  in.  section  1167,  Ro  vised  Stat- 
utes of  the  United  States,  manuscript  compilation  of  Ordnance  Prop- 
erty Regulations. 

2.  These  regulations  are  intended  to  supersede  the  Ordnance  Prop- 
erty Regulations  of  1909,  which  have  become  obsolete. 

WILLIAM  CROZIER, 
Brigadier  General,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 

By  T.  L.  AMES, 
Major,  Ordnance  Department. 

(2607907) 

(First  indorsement.] 

War  Dept.,  A.  G.  O.,  [July  17,  1917— To  the  Chief  of  Ordnance, 
approved. 

BY  ORDER  of  THE  SECRETARY  OP  WAR: 

P.  C.  HARRIS, 
Adjutant  General. 


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CONTENTS. 


ARTICLE  I    Laws  relating  to  ordnance  property 5 

1 1 .  Custodians  of  ordnance  property 13 

III.  Classification  of  uru nance  property 15 

IV.  Care  and  preservation  of  ordiiance  property 20 

V.  Requisitions  for  ordnance  property . 24 

VI.  Transfers  of  ordnance  property 34 

VII.  Purchases  of  ordnance  property 41 

VI II.  Manufacture  of  ordnance  property 42 

IX.  Sales  of  ordnance  property 43 

X.  Accumulations,  recoveries,  etc-.,  of  ordnance  property 44 

XI.  Expenditure  of  ordnance  property 45 

XII.  Loss,  damage,  or  destruction  of  ordnance  property 51 

XIII.  Nomenclature  iot  ordnance  property 59 

XIV.  Accountability  for  ordnance  property 61 

XV.  Inventories  of  ordnance  property 91 

XVI.  Settlement  of  returns 98 

XVII.  Reports  on  ordnance  property 100 

Appendix  giving  list  of  forma  required  iu  accounting  for  ordnance  property  . . .  103 

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ORDNANCE  PROPERTY  REGULATIONS. 


ARTICLE  I. 

LAWS. 

1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  tho  Chief  of  Ordnance  to  furnish  esti- 
mates and,  under  the  direction  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  make 
contracts   and   purchases  for  procuring   the  necessary  supplies  of 
ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  for  tho  use  of  the  armies  of  the  United 
States;  t.o  direct  the  inspection  and  proving  of  the  same;  and  to 
direct  the  construction  of  all  cannon  and  carriages,   ammunition 
wagons,  traveling  forges,  artificers'  wagons,  and  of  every  implement 
and  apparatus  for  ordnance,  and  the  preparation  of  all  kinds  of 
ammunition  and  ordnance  stores  constructed  or  prepared  for  said 
service.     (Sec.  1164,  R.  S.) 

2.  The  Chief  of  Ordnance,  or  the  senior  officer  of  that  corps  for 
any  district,  shall  execute  all  orders  of  the  Secretary  of  War  and,  in 
time  of  war,  the  orders  of  any  general  or  field  officer  commanding 
an  army,  garrison,  or  detachment,  for  the  supply  of  all  ordnance  and 
ordnance  stores  for  garrison,  field,  or  siege  service.     (Sec.  1166,  R.  S.) 

3.  The  Chief  of  Ordnance,  under  the  direction  of  the  Secretary  of 
War,  may  establish  depots  of  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  in  such 
parts  of  the  United  States  and  in  such  numbers  as  may  be  deemed 
necessary.     (Sec.  1165,  R.  S.) 

4.  Hereafter  the  United  States  shall  furnish  mounts  and  horse 
equipments  for  all  officers  of  the  Army  below  the  grade  of  major 
required  to  be  mounted.     (Act  of  May  11,  1908.) 

5.  Upon  the  request  of  the  head  of  any  department  the  Secretary 
of  War  is  authorized  and  directed  to  issue  arms  and  ammunition 
whenever  they  may  be  required  for  'the  protection  of  the  public 
money  and  property,  and  they  may  be  delivered  to  any  officer  of 
the  department  designated  by  the  head  ot  such  department,  to  be 
accounted  for  to  the  Secretary  of  War  and  to  be  returned  when  the 
necessity  for  their  use  has  expired.     4Tms  and  ammunition  hereto- 
fore furnished  to  any  department  by  the  War  Department,  for  which 
the  War  Department  has  not  been  reimbursed,  may  be  receipted  for 
under  the  provisions  of  this  act.     (Act  of  Mar.  3,  1879.) 

6.  The  War  Department  may  furnish  the  District  Commissioners, 
for  the  use  of  the  police,  upon  requisition,  such  unserviceable  horse 
equipments  as  may  be  required.     (Act  of  May  26,  1908.) 

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7.  Armament,  equipment,  and  uniform  of  the  National  Guard. — The 
National  Gua'rd  of  the  United  States  shall,  as  far  as  practicable,  be 
uniformed,  armed,  and  equipped  with  the  same  type  of  uniforms, 
arms,  and  equipments  as  are  or  shall  be  provided  for  the  Regular 
Army.     (Sec.  82,  national  defense  act,  approved  June  3,  1916.) 

8.  The  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized  to  procure,  under 
such  regulations  as  the  President  may  prescribe,  by  purchase  or  manu- 
facture, within  the  limits  of  available  appropriations  made  by  Con- 
gress, and  to  issue  from  time  to  tune  to  the  National  Guard,  upon 
requisition  of  the  governors  of  the  several  States  and  Territories  or 
the  commanding  general  of  the  National  Guard  of  the  District  of 
Columbia,   such  number  of  United  States  service   arms,  with   all 
accessories,  field  artillery  materiel,  engineer,  coast  artillery,  signal, 
and   sanitary   materiel,    accouterments,    field    uniforms,    clothing, 
equipage,  publications,  and  military  stores  of  all  kinds,  including 
public  animals,  as  are  nocessary  to  arm,  uniform,  and  equip  for 
field    service    the   National    Guard    in    the    several    States,  Terri-  • 
tories,  and  the  District  of  Columbia:  Provided,  That  as  a  condi- 
tion precedent  to  the  issue  of  any  property  as  provided  for  by  this 
act,  the  State,  Territory,  or  the  District  of  Columbia  desiring  such 
issue  shall  make  adequate  provision,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Secre- 
tary of  War,  for  the  protection  and  care  of  such  property:  Provided 
further,  That  whenever  it  shall  be  shown  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
Secretary  of  War  that  the  National  Guard  of  any  State,  Territory, 
or  the  District  of  Columbia  is  properly  organized,  armed,  and  equipped 
for  field  service,  funds  allotted  to  that  State,  Territory,  or  District 
for  the  support  of  its  National  Guard  may  be  used  for  the  purchase, 
from  the  War  Department,  of  any  article  issued  by  any  of  the  supply 
departments  of  the  Army.     (Sec.  83,  national  defense  act,  approved 
June  3,  1916.) 

9.  Under  such  regulations  as  the  President  may  prescribe,  when- 
ever a  new  type  of  equipment,  small  arm,  or  field  gun  shall  have 
been  issued  to  the  National  Guard  of  the  several  States,  Territories, 
and  the  District  of  Columbia,  such  equipment,  small  arms,  and 
field   guns,   including   all   accessories,   shall  be   furnished   without 
charging  the  cost  or  value  thereof  or  any  expense  connected  there- 
with against  the  appropriations  provided  for  the  support  of  the 
National  Guard.     (Sec.  84,  national  defense  act,  approved  June  3, 
1916.) 

10.  Each  State,  Territory,  and  the  District  of  Columbia  shall, 
on  the  receipt  of  new  .property  issued  to  replace  obsolete  or  con- 
demned prior  issues,  turn  in  to  the  War  Department  or  otherwise 
dispose  of,  in  accordance  with  the  directions  of  the  Secretary  of 
War,  all  property  so  'replaced  or  condemned,  and  shall  not  receive 


any  monoy  credit  therefor      (Sec.  85,  national  defense  act,  approved 
Juno  3,  1916.) 

11.  Disposition  and  replacement  of  damaged  property,  and  so  forth. — 
All  military  property  issued  to  the  National  Guard  as  herein  provided 
shall  remain  the  property  of  the  United  States.     (Sec.  87,  national 
defense  act,  approved  June  3,  1916.) 

12.  The  governor  of  each  State  and  Territory  and  tho  commanding 
general  of  the  National  Guard  of  the  District  of  Columbia  shall  ap- 
point, designate,  or  detail,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Secretary 
of  War,  an  officer  of  the  National  Guard  of  the  State,  Territory,  or 
District  of  Columbia  who  shall  be  regarded  as  property  and  disbursing 
officer  for  the  United  States.     He  shall  receipt  and  account  for  all 
funds  and  property  belonging  to  the  United  States  in  possession  of 
the  National  Guard  of  his  State,  Territory,  or  District,  and  shall 
make  such  returns  and  reports  concerning  the  same  as  may  be  required 
bv  the  Secretary  of  War.     (Sec.  67,  national  defense  act,  approved 
June  3,  1916.) 

13.  Tho  Secretary  of  War  is  authorized  to  issue,  at  his  discretion 
and  under  proper  regulations  to  be  prescribed  by  him,  out  of  ordnance 
and  ordnance  stores  belonging  to  the  Government,  and  which  can 
be  spared  for  that  purpose,  such  as  may  appear  to  be  required  for 
military  instruction  and  practice  by  the  students  of  the  high  school 
of  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  and  the  Secretary  shall  require 
a  bond  in  each  case,  in  double  the  value  of  the  property,  for  the  care 
and  safe-keeping  thereof,  and  for  the  return  of  same  when  required. 
(Act  of  Feb.  5,  1891.) 

14.  The  Secretary  of  War,  under  such  regulations  as  he  may  pre- 
scribe, is  hereby  authorized  to  issue  to  institutions  at  which  one  or 
more  units  of  the  Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps  are  maintained 
such  public  animals,  arms,  uniforms,  equipment,  and  means  of  trans- 
portation as  he  may  deem  necessary,  and  to  forage  at  the  expense  of 
the  United  States  public  animals  so  issued.     He  shall  require  from 
each  institution  to  which  property  of  the  United  States  is  issued  a 
bond  in  the  value  of  the  property  issued  for  the  care  and  safe-keeping 
thereof,  and  for  its  return  when  required.     (Sec.  47,  national  defense 
act,  approved  June  3,  1916.) 

15.  The  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized  to  maintain  camps 
for  the  further  practical  instruction  of  the  members  of  the  Reserve 
Officers'  Training  Corps,     *     *    *     to  use  the  Regular  Army,  such 
other  military  forces  as  Congress  from  time  to  time  authorizes,  and 
such  Government  property  as  he  may  deem  r.ecessary  for  the  military 
training  of  the  members  of  such  corps  while  in  attendance  at  such 
camps.     *     *     *     (Sec.  48,  national  defense  act,  approved  June  3, 
1916.) 


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16.  Training  camps. — The  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized 
to  maintain,  upon  military  reservations  or  elsewhere,  camps  for  the 
military  instruction  and  training  of  such  citizens  as  may  be  selected 
for  such  instruction  and  training,  upon  their  application  and  under 
such  terms  of  enlistment  and  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  by 
the  Secretary  of  War;  to  use,  for  the  purpose  of  maintaining  said 
camps  and  imparting  military  instruction  and  training  -thereat,  such 
arms,  ammunition,  accouterments,  equipments,  tentage,  field  equip- 
age, and  transportation  belonging  to  the  United  States  as  he  may 
deem  necessary.     *     *    .*     (Sec.  54,  national  defense  act,  approved 
June  3,  1916.) 

17.  The  Enlisted  Reserve  Corps. — For  the  purpose  of  securing  an 
additional  reserve  of  enlisted  men  for  military  service  with  the  Engi- 
neer, Signal,  and  Quartermaster  Corps  and  the  Ordnance  and  Medical 
Departments  of  the  Regular  Army,  an  Enlisted  Reserve  Corps,  to 
consist  of  such  number  of  enlisted  men  of  such  grade  or  grades  as 
may  be  designated  by  the  President  from  time  to  time,  is  hereby 
authorized,  such  authorization  to  be  effective  on  and  after  the  first 
day  of  July,  nineteen  hundred  and  sixteen.    *    *    * 

The  uniform  to  be  worn  by  enlisted  men  of  the  Enlisted  Reserve 
Corps,  except  corps  insignia,  shall  be  the  same  as  prescribed  for 
enlisted  men  of  the  Regular  Army  Reserve,  and  that  in  lieu  of  any 
money  allowance  for  clothing  there  shall  be  issued  to  each  enlisted 
man  of  the  Enlisted  Reserve  porps  in  time  of  peace  such  articles  of 
clothing  and  equipment  as  the  President  may  direct:  Provided,  That 
any  clothing  or  other  equipment  issued  to  any  enlisted  man  of  the 
said  corps  shall  remain  the  property  of  the  United  States,  and  in  case 
of  loss  or  destruction  of  any  article,  the  article  FO  lost  or  destroyed 
shall  be  replaced  by  issue  to  the  enlisted  man  and  the  value  thereof 
deducted  from  any  pay  due  or  to  become  due  him,  unless  it  shall  be 
made  to  appear  that  such  loss  or  destruction  was  not  due  to  neglect 
or  other  fault  on  his  part:  Provided  further,  That  any  clothing  or 
other  equipment  issued  to  enlisted  men  of  the  Enlisted  Reserve  Corps 
which  shall  have  become  unserviceable  through  ordinary  wear  and 
tear  in  the  service  of  the  United  States  shall  be  received  back  by  the 
United  States  and  serviceable  like  articles  issued  in  lieu  thereof: 
Provided  further,  That  when  enlisted  men  of  the  Enlisted  Reserve 
Corps  shall  be  discharged  or  otherwise  separated  from  the  service, 
all  arms,  equipage,  clothing,  and  other  property  issued  to  them  shall 
be  accounted  for  under  such  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  by 
the  Secretary  of  War.  *  *  *  (Sec.  55,  national  defense  act,  ap- 
proved June  3,  1916.) 

18.  Military  equipment  and  instructors  at  other  schools  and  col- 
leges,— Such  arms,  tentage,  and  equipment  as  the  Secretary  of  War 


shall  deem  necessary  for  proper  military  training  shall  be  supplied 
by  the  Government  to  schools  and  colleges,  other  than  those  pro- 
vided for  in  section  forty-seven  of  this  act,  having  a  course  of  mili- 
tary training  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War  and  having  not  less 
than  one  hundred  physically  fit  male  students  above  the  age  of  four- 
teen years,  under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  he  may  prescribe; 
and  the  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized  to  detail  such  com- 
missioned and  noncommissioned  officers  of  the  Army  to  said  schools 
and  colleges,  other  than  those  provided  for  in  sections  forty-five  and 
forty-six  of  this  act,  detailing  not  less  than  one  such  officer  or  non- 
commissioned officer  to  each  five  hundred  students  under  military 
instruction.  (Sec.  56,  natiorial  defense  act,  approved  June  3,  1916.) 
.  19.  The  Secretary  of  War  is  authorized  to  issue,  at  his  discretion 
and  under  proper  regulations  to  be  prescribed  by  him,  out  of  ord- 
nance and  ordnance  stores  belonging  to  the  Government,  and  which 
can  be  spared  for  that  purpose,  such  number  of  the  same  as  may 
appear  to  be  required  for  military  instruction  and  practice  by  the 
*etudents  of  any  college  or  university  under  the  provisions  of  this 
section,  and  the  Secretary  shall  require  a  bond  in  each  case,  in  double 
the  value  of  the  property,  for  the  care  and  safe-keeping  thereof,  and 
for  the  return  of  the  same  when  required.  (Sec.  1225,  Rev.  Stat., 
as  amended  by  act  of  Sept.  26,  1888.) 

20.  The  Secretary  of  War  is  authorized  to  issue,  at  his  discretion 
and  under  proper  regulations  to  be  prescribed  by  him,  out  of  ord- 
nance and  ordnance  stores  belonging  to  the  Government,  and  which 
can  be  spared  for  that  purpose,  upon  the  approval  of  the  governors 
of  the  respective  States  -and  Territories,  such  number  of  the  same 
as  may  be  required  for  military  instruction  and  practice  by  schools 
in  the  United  States  and  Territories  where  such  instruction  and 
practice  shall  have  been  authorized  by  the  educational  authorities; 
and  the  Secretary  shall  require  a  bond  in  each  case,  for  double  the 
value  of  the  property,  for  the  care  and  safe-keeping  thereof  and  for 
the  return  of  the  same  when  required.     (Sec.  1225,  Rev.  Stat.,  as 
amended  by  act  of  Apr.  21,  1904,  sec.  3.) 

21.  Ammunition,  targets,  target  material,  and  other  accessories 
may  be  issued  for  small-arms  target  practice  and  instruction  at  the 
educational  institutions   and   State   soldiers'  and  sailors'  orphans' 
homes,  tc  which  issues  of  small  arms  ate  lawfully  made,  under  such 
regulations  as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  prescribe:  Provided,  The 
total  value  of  the  stores  so  issued  to  the  educational  institutions  does 
not  exceed  $30.000.     (Act  of  Aug.  29,  1916.) 

22.  Hereafter,  ammunition  of  older  models  than  current  may  be 
issued  for  instruction  in  target  practice  of  students  at  the  institutions 
to  which  the  issue  of  artillery  is  authorized,  to  the  value  of  not  more 


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than  $5,000  of  the  original  cost  in  any  one  year.     (Act  of  Mar.  3, 
1909.) 

23.  The  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized  to  issue,  at  his  dis- 
cretion and  under 'proper  regulations  to  bt>  prescribed  by  him,  with- 
out cost  of  transportation  to  the  United  States,  such  obsolete  ord- 
nance and  ordnance  stores  as  may  be  available  to  State  and  Terri- 
torial educational  institutions   and  to   State  soldiers'   and  sailors' 
orphans'  homes,  for  purposes  of  drill  and  instruction. 

And  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  require  from  such  institutions  or 
homes  a  bond  in  each  case  in  double  the  value  of  the  property  issued, 
for  the  care  and  safe-keeping  thereof  and  for  the  return  of  the  same 
to  the  United  States  when  required:  Prcnnded^Th&t  the  issues  herein 
provided  for  shall  be  made  only  to  institutions  upon  recommendation 
of  the  governors  of  States  and  Territories  and  shall  not  be  made  in 
any  case  to  any  educational  institution  to  which  issues  of  such  stores 
are  allowed  to  be  made  under  provisions  of  existing  law.  (Act  of  June 
30,  1906.) 

24.  The  Secretary  of  War  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  are  au- 
thorized, in  their  discretion,  to  loan  or  give  to  soldiers'  monument 
associations,  posts  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and  municipal 
corporations,  condemned  ordnance,  guns,  and  cannon  balls  which 
may  not  be  needed  in  the  services  of  either  of  said  departments. 
Such  loan  or  gift  shall  be  made  subject  to  rules  and  regulations 
covering  the  same  in  each  department,  and  the  Government  shall 
be  at  no  expense  in  connection  with  any  such  loan  or  gift.     (Act  of 
May  22,  1896.) 

25.  The  Chief  of  Ordnance  is  authorized  to  issue  such  obsolete  or 
condemned  ordnance,  gun  carriages,  and  ordnance  stores,  as  may  be 
needed  for  ornamental  purposes,  to  the  homes  for  disabled  volunteer 
soldiers,  the  homes  to  pay  for  transportation  and  such  other  expenses 
as  are  necessary.     (Act  of  Mar.  3,  1899.) 

26.  The  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized  to  issue,  without 
expense  to  the  United  States,  for  use  in  target  practice,  United  States 
magazine  rifles  and  appendages  therefor,  not  of  the  existing  service 
model,  aad  not  necessary  for  the  proper  maintenance  of  a  proper 
reserve  supply,  together  with  forty  rounds  of  ball  cartridges  suitable 
to  said  arm,  for  each  range  at  which  target  practice  is  had,  not  to 
exceed  a  total  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  rounds  per  year  per  man 
participating  in  target  practice,  to  rifle  clubs  organized  under  the 
rules  of  the  National  Board  for  the  Promotion  of  Rifle  Practice,  and 
to  schools  having  a  uniformed  corps  of  cadets  and  carrying  on  mili- 
tary training,  in  sufficient  number  for  the  conduct  of  proper  target 
practice. 

Issues  ef  public  property  under  this  provision  shall  be  made  in 
compliance  with  regulations  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War 


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insuring  the  designed  use  of  the  property  issued,  providing  against 
loss  to  the  United  States  through  lack  of  proper  care,  and  for  the 
return  of  the  property  when  required,  and  embodying  such  other 
requirements  as  he  may  consider  necessary  adequately  to  safeguard 
the  interests  of  the  United  States.  (Act  approved  Apr.  27,  1914.) 

27.  The  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized  to  issue,  under 
such  rules  and  regulations  as  he  may  prescribe,  for  use  in  target 
practice,   targets,  target  materials,  and  other  necessary  accessories, 
to  rifle  clubs  organized  under  the  rules  of  the  National  Board  for  the 
Promotion  of  Rifle  Practice  and  to  schools  having  a  uniformed  corps 
of  cadets  and  carrying  on  military  training,  in  sufficient  number  for 
tiie  proper  conduct  of  target  practice.     (Act  approved  Aug.  29, 1916.) 

28.  Encouragement  of  rifle  practice. — The  Secretary  of  War  shall 
annually  submit  to  Congress  recommendations  and  estimates  for  the 
establishment  and  maintenance  of  indoor  and  outdoor  rifle  ranges, 
under  such  a  comprehensive  plan  as  will  ultimately  result  in  providing 
adequate  facilities  for  rifle  practice  hi  all  sections  of  the  country. 
And  that  all  ranges  so  established  and  all  ranges  which  may  have 
already  been  constructed,  in  whole  or  in  part,  with  funds  provided 
by  Congress  shall  be  open  for  use  by  those  in  any  branch  of  the  mili- 
tary or  naval  service  of  the  United  States  and  by  all  able-bodied 
males  capable  of  bearing  arms,  under  reasonable* regulations  to  be 
prescribed  by  the  controlling  authorities  and  approved  by  the  Secre- 
tary of  War.     That  the  President  .may  detail  capable  officers  and 
noncommissioned  officers  of  the  Regular  Army  and  National  Guard 
to  duty  at  such  ranges  as  instructors  for  the  purpose  of  training  the 
citizenry  in  the  use  of  the  military  arm.     Where  rifle  ranges  shall 
have  been  so  established  and  instructors  assigned  to  duty  thereat, 
the  Secretary  of  War  shall  be  authorized  to  provide  for  the  issue  of  a 
reasonable  number  of  standard  military  rifles  and  such  quantities 
of  ammunition  as  may  be  available  for  use  in  conducting  such  rifle 
practice.     (Seo.  113,  national  defense  act  approved  June  3,  1916.) 

29.  The  Chief  of  Ordnance  shall,  half  yearly,  or  oftener  if  so 
directed,  make  a  report  to  the  Secretary  of  War  of  all  the  officers 
and  enlisted  men  in  his  department  of  the  service,  and  of  all  ordnance 
and  ordnance  stores  under  his  control.     The  Chief  of  Ordnance, 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  is  hereby  authorized 
and  directed  to  draw  up  and  enforce  in  his  department  a  system  of 
rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  of  the  Ordnance  Depart- 
ment, and  of  all  persons  in  said  department,  and  for  the  safe-keeping 
and  preservation,  of  all  ordnance  property  of  every  kind.     (Seo.  1167, 
Rev.  Stat.) 

30.  The  cost  of  repairs  or  damages  done  to  arms,  equipments,  or 
implements  shall  be  deducted  from  the  pay  of  any  officer  or  soldier 
in  whose  care  or  use  the  same  were  when  such  damages  occurred, 


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if  said  damages  were  occasioned  by  the  abuse  or  negligence  of  said 
officer  or  soldier.     (Sec.  1303,  Rev.  Stat.) 

31.  In  case  of  deficiency  of  any  article  of  military  supplies  on  final 
settlements  of  the  accounts  of  any  officer  charged  with  the  issue  of 
the  same,  the  value  thereof  shall  be  charged  against  the  delinquent 
and  deducted  from  his  monthly  pay,  unless  he  shall  show  to  the 
satisfaction  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  by  one  or  more  depositions 
setting  forth  the  circumstances  of  the  case,  that  said  deficiency  was 
not  occasioned  by  any  fault  on  his  part.     And  in  case  of  damage 
to  anj^  military  supplies,  the  value  of  such  damage  shall  be  charged 
against  such  officer  and  deducted  from  his  monthly  pay,  unless  he 
shall,  in.  like,  manner,  show  that  such  damage  was  not  occasioned 
by  any  fault  on  his  part.     (Sec.  1304,  Rev.  Stat.) 

32.  In  settling  the  accounts  of  the  commanding  officer  of  a  com- 
pany for  clothing  and  other  military  supplies,  the  affidavit  of  any 
such  officer  may  be  received  to  show  the  loss  of  vouchers  or  company 
books,  or  any  matter  or  circumstance  tending  to  prove  that  any 
apparent  deficiency  was  occasioned  by  unavoidable  accident  or  lost 
in  actual  service,  without  any  fault  on  his  part,  or  that  the  whole 
or  any  part  pf  such  clothing  and  supplies  had  been  properly  and 
legally  used  and  appropriated;   and  such  affidavit  may  be  considered 
as  evidence  to  establish  the  facts  set  forth,  with  or  without  other 
evidence,  as  may  seem  to  the  Secretary  of  War  just  and  proper 
under  the  circumstances  of  the  case.     (Sec.  225,  Rev.  Stat.) 

33.  Every  officer  whose  duty  it  is  to  render  to  the  War  Department 
or  other  superior  authority  a  return  of  the  state  of  the  troops  under 
his  command,  or  of  the  arms,  ammunition,  clothing,  funds,  or  other 
property  thereunto  belonging,  who  knowingly  makes  a  false  return 
thereof  shall  be  dismissed  from  the  service  and  suffer  such  other  pun- 
ishment as  a  court-martial  may  direct.     And  auy  officer  who,  through 
neglect  or  design,  omits  to  render  such  return  shall  be  punished  as  a 
court-martial  may  direct.     (Part  of  Art.  57,  Rev.  Articles  of  War.) 

34.  Any  person  subject  to  military  law  who  willfully,  or  through 
neglect,  suffers  to  be  lost,  spoiled,  damaged,  or  wrongfully  disposed 
of,  any  military  property  belonging  to  the  United  States  shall  make 
good  the  loss  or  damage  and  suffer  such  punishment  as  a  court- 
martial  may  direct.     (Art.  83,  Rev.  Articles  of  War.) 

35.  Any  soldier  who  sells  oi  wrongfully  disposes  of  or  willfully  or 
through  neglect  injures  or  loses  any  horse,  arms,  ammunition,  acccm- 
terments,  equipment,  clothing,  or  other  property  issued  for  use  in 
the  military  service,  shall  be  punished  as  a  court-martial  may  direct. 
(Art.  84,  Rev.  Articles  of  War.) 

36.  Any  person  subject  to  military  law  who  steals,  embezzles, 
knowingly  and  willingly  misappropriates,  applies  to  his  own  use  or 
benefit,  or  wrongfully  or  knowingly  sells  or  disposes  of  any  ordnance, 


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arms,  equipments,  ammunition,  clothing,  subsistence  stores,  money, 
or  other  property  of  the  United  States  furnished  or  intended  for  the 
military  service  thereof,  shall  on  conviction  thereof,  be  punished  by 
fine  or  imprisonment,  or  by  such  other  punishment  as  a  court-martial 
may  adjudge,  or  by  any  or  all  of  said  penalties.  (Part  of  art.  94, 
Rev.  Articles  of  War.) 

37.  Instead  of  forwarding  to  the  accounting  officers  of  the  Treasury 
Department  returns  of  public  property  intrusted  to  the  possession  of 
officers  or  agents,  the  Quartermaster  General,  the  Commissary  Gen- 
eral of  Subsistence,  the  Surgeon  General,  the  Chief  of  Engineers,  the 
Chief  of  Ordnance,  the  Chief  Signal  Officer,  the  Paymaster  General  of 
the  Navy,  the  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs,  or  other  like  chief 
officers  in  any  department,  by,  through,  or  under  whom  stores,  sup- 
plies, and  other  public  property  are  received  for  distribution,  or  whose 
duty  it  is  to  receive  or  examine  returns  of  such  property,  shall  certify 
to  the  proper  accounting  officer  of  the  Treasury  Department,  for 
debiting  on  the  proper  account,  any  charge  against  any  officer  or 
agent  intrusted  with  public  property,  arising  from  any  loss,  accruing 
by  his  fault,  to  the  Government  as  to  the  property  ao  intrusted  to  him. 

Said  certificate  shall  set  forth  the  condition  of  such  officer's  or 
agent's  property  returns^  that  it  includes  all  charges  made  up  to  its 
date  and  not  previously  certified,  that  he  has  had  a  reasonable  oppor- 
tunity to  be  heard  and  has  not  been  relieved  of  responsibility;  the 
effect  of  such  certificate,  when  received,  shall  be  the  same  as  if  the 
facts  therein  set  forth  had  been  ascertained  by  the  accounting  officers 
of  the  Treasury  Department  in  accounting.  (Sees.  1  and  2,  act  of 
Mar.  29,  1894.) 

ARTICLE  II. 

CUSTODIANS  OF  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

See  A.  R.  657,  658,  659  660,  661,  662,  663,  664,  695  of  1913,  and 
the  regulations  governing  the  National  Guard  of  the  United  States. 

38.  Commanding  officers  of  arsenals,  armories,  and  other  ordnance 
establishments  are  responsible  and  accountable  for  all  ordnance  and 
ordnance  stores  on   hand  at  those  establishments  or  under   their 
control  or  direction. 

39.  Commanding  officers  of  companies,  troops,  batteries,  and  de- 
tachments are  responsible  for  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores 
issued  to  them  for  the  uses  of  their  commands. ' 

This  material  is  held  on  memorandum  receipt  from  regimental, 
detachment,  coast  defense,  etc.,  ordnance  officers  who  are  accountable 
for  the  same. 

40.  Post  ordnance  officers  are  responsible  and  accountable  lor  all 
ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  at  their  post  not  accounted  for  by 
regimental  or  other  unit  supply  officers. 


41.  Coast  defense  ordnance  officers  are  accountable  for  all  ordnance 
and  ordnance  stores,  including  equipments  in  the  artillery  districts, 
that  have  been  turned  over  to  the  Artillery,  and  have  general  super- 
vision of  the  care  and  preservation  of  the  ordnance  property  for  which 
they  are  accountable.     Post  ordnance  officers  of  Coast  Artillery  posts 
hold,    on   memorandum   receipt   from   the   coast   defense   ordnance 
officer,  all  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  at  their  posts.     These  post 
ordnance  officers  are  responsible  for  the  ordnance  property  they 
hold  on  memorandum  receipt,  except  such  as  has  been  issued  on 
memorandum  receipt  to  commanding  officers  of  companies,  batteries, 
and  stations.     Commanding  officers   of   companies,    batteries,   and 
stations  are  responsible  for  the  eouipment  of  their  companies.  Bat- 
teries, and  stations. 

42.  When  there  is  only  one  commissioned  officer  at  a  post,  he  is 
responsible  and  accountable  for  all  ordnance  properly  on  hand  at 
that  post.     When  there  are  no  commissioned  officer  present,  the 
ordnance  sergeant  is  responsible  and  accountable  for  the  ordnance 
property.    At  stations  of  the  Signal  Corps  where  no  commissioned 
officer  is  present,  the  senior  sergeant  of  the  Signal  Corps  present  is 
responsible   and   accountable  for   the   ordnance   property   of   that 
station. 

43.  Officers  below  the  grade  of  major  required  to  be  mounted,  not 
serving  with  organizations  equipped  under  the  unit  equipment  sys- 
tem, or  at  posts,  and  to  whom  horse  equipments  have  been  issued 
by  the  Ordnance  Department,  are  responsible  and  accountable  for 
them. 

44.  The  commanding  officers  of  posts  or  stations  are  pecuniarily 
liable  with  their  subordinate  officers  immediately  responsible  for 
ordnance  property  for  the  strict  observance  of  the  regulations  in 
regard  to  its  care,  preservation,  transfer,  and  use. 

45.  When  troops  are  operating  in  the  field,  the  principal  reserves 
of  ammunition  and  other  ordnance  property  will  be  in  charge  of  the 
chief  ordnance  officers  of  the  corps  and  divisions  or  depot  ordnance 
officers,  and  they  will  be  responsible  and  accountable  for  this  prop- 
erty, which  is  for  issue  to  the  several  commands  under  the  direc(ion 
of  the  corps  and  division  commanders. 

46.  When  unserviceable  horse  equipments  are  issued  to  the  Com- 
missioners of  the  District  of  Columbia  for  the  use  of  the  police,  the 
responsibility  for  the  property  devolves  on  the  District  of  Columbia, 
but  the  accountability  will  be  rendered  in  behalf  of  the  District  by 
the  superintendent  of  police. 

47.  When  National  Guard  organizations  arc  mustered  into  the 
service  of  the  United  States,  the  supply  officers  of  the  regiments  or 
separate  units  less  than  a  regiment,  will  receipt  to  the  United  States 
property  and  disbursing  officers  of  the  States  for  all  the  ordnance 


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property  in  possession  of  the  organizations  when  transferred  from  the 
States  to  the  Federal  service,  and  the  organization  commanders  will 
thereafter  hold  the  property  on  memorandum  receipts  from  these 
supply  officers,  who  wfll  account  for  the  property  on  their  returns 
rendered  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  of  the  United  States  Army.  Or- 
ganization commanders  and  individual  officers  are  responsible  but  not 
accountable  for  the  property  issued  to  them  on  memorandum  receipt. 

48.  When  ordnance  property  is  issued  to  a  head  of  an  executive 
department  for  the  protection  of  public  money  and  property,  respon- 
sibility for  the  property  devolves  on  the  department  concerned ;  but 
accountability  will  be  rendered  by  such  officer  of  the  department  as 
may  be  designated  by  the  head  thereof. 

49.  When  ordnance  property  is  issued  to  the  high  schools  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.,  the  responsibility  for  the  property  devolves  on  the 
District  of  Columbia;  but  the  accountability  will  be  rendered  on 
behalf  of  the  District  by  such  officer  of  the  District  of  Columbia  as 
may  be  designated  by  the  board  of  education  of  the  District. 

50.  When  ordnance  property  is  issued  to  educational  institutions, 
schools,  and  rifle  clubs,  as  provided  for  by  law,  responsibility  and 
accountability  for  the  property  so  issued  devolve  on  the  institution, 
school,  or  club  and  returns  for  this  property  will  be  made  in  the  name 
of  the  institution  and  signed  by  the  president  or  other  official  author- 
ized to  sign  same. 

'51.  When  ordnance  property  is  issued  to  State  and  Territorial  edu- 
cational institutions  and  to  State  soldiers'  and  sailors'  orphans'  homes 
for  the  purposes  of  drill  and  instruction,  the  responsibility  and  ac- 
countability for  the  property  devolve  on  the  institution  or  home; 
and  the  returns  for  this  property  will  be  rendered  in  their  behalf  by 
the  governors,  presidents,  or  other  principal  officers. 

52.  When  condemned  ordnance,  guns,  and  cannon  balls  are  loaned 
to  soldiers'  monument  associations,  posts  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  and  municipal  corporations,  responsibility  and  accounta- 
bility for  the  property  devolve  on  the  officer  of  the  association  or  of' 
the  post  or  of  the  corporation  who  will  be  designated  in  each  case. 
When  obsolete  ordnance,  gun  carriages,  and  ordnance  stores  are 
issued,  to  homes  for  disabled  volunteer  soldiers  for  ornamental  pur- 
poses, the  responsibility  and  accountability  for  the  property  devolve 
on  the  governors  of  the  homes. 

ARTICLE  III. 
CLASSIFICATION  'OF  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

53.  Ordnance    property,    for    the    purpose    of    accountability,    is 
divided  into  two  parts,  and  the  appropriate  classes  and  sections. 


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PART  I. 

Comprises  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,  for  issue  to  the  Army,  the  National  Guard, 
educational  institutions,  soldiers'  and  sailors'  xphans*  homes,  etc.,  arranged  in  the 
following  classification: 

CLASS  I. 

Artillery  of  position,  comprising  seacoast  cannon,  with  their  carriages,  sights,  spare 
parts,  implements,  equipments,  and  subcaliber  guns,  as  follows: 

1.  Seacoast  guns,  with  their  carriages,  sights,  accessories,  spare  parts,  implements, 
and  equipments. 

2.  Rapid-fire  seacoast  guns,  with  their  carriages,  sights,  accessories,  spare  parts, 
implements,  and  equipments. 

3.  Seacoast  mortars,  with  their  carriages,  sights,  accessories,  spare  parts,  implements, 
and  equipments. 

4.  Subcaliber  guns,  with  their  fittings  and  accessories. 

5.  Experimental  cannon,   with  their  carriages,  sights,   accessories,   spare  parts, 
implements,  and  equipments. 

6.  Saluting  cannon,  with  their  carriages,  spare  parts,  accessories,  and  equipments. 

7.  Bronze,  iron,  and  other  cannon,  of  obsolete  design,  with  their  carriages,  sights, 
accessories,  spare  parts,  implements,  and  equipments. 

8.  Miscellaneous  articles  of  a  general  character  pertaining  to  cannon  and 'their 
carriages. 

NOTE. — Section  8  covers  such  articles  as  telescopic  sights,  which  are  notpeculiar* 
to  any  of  the  preceding  sections. 

CLASS  II. 

Miscellaneous  articles  for  seacoast  artillery,  such  as  range  finders,  plotting  board, 
implements  for  mechanical  maneuvers,  lathes,  and  tools  for  mechanics,  seacoast 
targets,  drafting  instruments,  and  materials,  as  follows: 

1.  Range  finders  and  other  articles,  including  their  parts,  for  the  fire  control  of 
artillery  of  position. 

2.  Articles  for  mechanical  maneuvers. 

3.  Machines,  tools,  and  materials  for  use  at  posts  in  repair  of  seacoast  artillery. 

4.  Seacoast  targets  and  target  accessories  and  supplies. 

5.  Articles  for  drafting  and  photoprinting  purposes. 

6.  Articles  for  instruction  purposes. 

7.  Miscellaneous  articles  for  artillery  of  position. 

CLASS  III. 

Ammunition  and  its  components  for  artillery  of  position,  including  powders,  car- 
tridge bags,  and  cartridge  storage  cases,  as  fellows: 

1.  Ammunition  and  its  components  for  seacoast  cannon. 

2.  Ammunition  and  its  components  for  rapid-fire  seacoast  cannon. 

3.  Ammunition  and  its  components  for  subcaliber  guns. 

4.  Ammunition  and  its  components  for  experimental  cannon. 

5.  Ammunition  and  its  components  for  obsolete  cannon. 

6.  Miscellaneous  components  used  in  ammunition  lor  artillery  of  position. 

NOTE. — Section  6  covers  such  articles  as  fuzes  and  primers,  which  are  not  peculiar 
to  any  preceding  section. 

CLASS  IV. 

Mobile  artillery,  comprising  machine,  mountain,  field,  and  siege  cannon,  with  their 
carriages,  sights,  spare  parts,  implements,  equipments,  and  harness,  as  follows: 

1.  Machine  guns,  with  their  carriages,  mounts,  limbers,  sights,  accessories,  spare 
parts,  implements,  and  equipments. 


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2.  Mountain  cannon,  with  their  carriages,  Fights,  accessories,  spare  parts,  imple- 
ments, and  equipments. 

3.  Field  cannon,  with  their  carriages,  limbers,  caissons,  sights,  accessories,  spare 
parts,  implements,  and  equipments. 

4.  Siege  cannon,  with  their  carriages,  limbers,  wagons,  sights,  accessories,  spare 
parts,  implements,  and  equipments. 

5.  Subcaliber  guns  and  subcaliber  cartridges,  with  their  fittings  and  accessories. 

6.  Experimental  guns  and  cannon,  with  their  carriages,  mounts,  limbers,  wagons, 
eights,  accessories,  spare  parts,  implements,  and  equipments. 

7.  Bronze,  iron,  and  other  guns  and  cannon  of  obsolete  design,  with  their  carriages, 
mounts,  limbers,  sights,  accessories,  spare  parts,  implements,  and  equipments. 

8.  Harness  and  its  components  for  mobile  artillery,  exclusive  of  packing  outfits. 

9.  Miscellaneous  articles,  consisting  of  artillery  carriages,  implements,  and  equip- 
ments of  a  general  character  pertaining  to  mobile  artillery. 

CLASS  V. 

Miscellaneous  articles  for  mobile  artillery,  such  as  instruments  for  fire  control, 
targets  and  other  accessories  for  target  practice,  and  implements  for  mechanical 
maneuvers,  as  follows: 

1.  Range  finders  and  other  articles  for  the  fire  control  of  mobile  artillery. 

2.  Articles  for  mechanical  maneuver *. 

3.  Mobile  artillery  targets  and  target  accessories  and  supplies. 

4.  Articles  for  instruction  purposes. 

5.  Miscellaneous  articles  for  mobile  artillery. 

CLASS  VI. 

Ammunition  and  its  components  for  mobile  artillery,  including  powders  and  car- 
tridge bags,  as  follows: 

1.  Ammunition  and  its  components  for  machine  and  automatic  guns. 

2.  Ammunition  and  its  components  for  mountain  cannon. 

3.  Ammunition  and  its  components  for  field  cannon. 

4.  Ammunition  and  its  component*  for  siege  cannon. 

5.  Ammunition  and  itn  components  for  experimental  cannon. 

6.  Ammunition  and  its  components  for  obsolete  cannon. 

7.  Miscellaneous  components  used  in  ammunition  for  mobile  artillery. 

CLASS  VII. 

Small  arms  and  hand  ums  of  all  kinds,  including  their  spare  parts  and  appendages, 
as  follows: 

1.  Rifles  and  carbines,  with  their  parts  and  appendages. 

2.  Pistols  and  revolvers,  with  their  parts  and  appendages. 

3.  Obsolete  small  arms,  with  their  parts  and  appendages. 

4.  Shotguns,  with  their  parts  and  appendages. 

5.  Hand  arms,  with  their  parts  and  appendages. 

CLASS  VIII. 

Small-arms  ammunition  of  all  kinds,  and  hand  and  rifle  grenades,  and  their  com- 
ponents, as  follows: 

1.  Rifle  ammunition  and  its  components. 

2.  Pistol  and  revolver  ammunition  and  its  component*. 

3.  Shotgun  ammunition  and  ita  components. 

4.  Hand  and  rifle  grenades  and  their  components. 

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CLASS  IX. 

Equipments  for  the  soldier,  horse  equipments,  equipments  for  sale  to  officers,  and 
their  components,  aa  follows: 

1.  Infantry  equipments  and  their  components. 

2.  Cavalry  equipments  and  their  components. 

3.  Artillery  equipments  and  their  components. 

4.  Band  equipments. 

5.  Horse  equipments  and  their  components. 

6.  Officers'  equipments  and  their  components. 

CLASS.  X. 

Miscellaneous  njticles  for  the  use  of  troops,  batteries,  and  companies,  comprising 
range  finders  for  the  fire  control  of  small  arms,  targets,  and  other  accessories  for  small- 
arms  target  practice,  fencing  equipments,  arm  racks,  badges  and  medals  of  all  kinds, 
reloading  tools,  repairing  tools,  cleaning  and  preserving  materials  of  all  kinds,  as 
follows: 

1 .  Arm  chests,  arm  racks,  etc. 

2.  Fencing  equipments. 

3.  Intrenching  tools  and  their  carriers. 

4.  Insignia  and  prizes  for  small-arms  and  gunnery  practice. 

5.  Marking,  stencil,  and  etching  outfits. 

6.  Range-finding  articles  for  email  arms. 

7.  Targets  and  target  materials  and  supp"  'es  for  small  and  hand  arms  practice. 

8.  Tools  for  reloading  small-arms  ammunition. 

9.  Tools  for  repairing  arms  and  equipments. 

10.  Cleaning,  preserving,  and  repairing  supplies. 

11 .  Publications  and  blank  forms. 

PART  II. 

Comprises  buildings  and  grounds  and  ordnance  stores  in  current,  service  at  the 
various  ordnance  establishments,  arranged  in  the  foll<  wing  classification: 

CLASS  I. 

Buildings,  grounds,  and  works  of  a  permanent  character  at  an  ordnance  establish- 
ment. 

CLASS  II. 

Tools,  implements,  utensils,  and  other  articles  in  ise  for  general  purposes  at  au 
ordnance  establishment,  as  follows: 

1.  Books,  drawing  instruments,  furniture,  office  furnishings,  and  the  permanent 
articles  of  stationery. 

2.  Machines,  instruments,  and  other  articles  for  laboratory,  photographic,  or  experi- 
mental purposes. 

3.  Articles  for  heating  and  lighting. 

4.  Machines,  tools,  and  utensils  for  the  care  and  preservation  of  buildings,  roads, 
and  ground?. 

5.  Articles  used  for  communication,  fire  protection,  and  sanitary  purposes. 

6.  Articles  for  transportation  purposes. 

7.  Miscellaneous  articles. 


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CLASS  III. 

Machines,  tools,  and  apparatus  used  for  manufacturing  purposes  at  an  ordnance 
establishment,  as  follows: 

1.  Apparatus  for  the  generation,  transmission,  and  application  of  power. 

2.  Apparatus  for  the  chemical  treatment  and  conversion  of  metals,  and  for  their 
treatment  and  conversion  by  heat. 

3.  Patterns. 

4.  Leather,  cloth,  and  fiber  working  machines  with  their  appropriate  tools,  fixtures, 
and  part". 

5.  Metal-working  machines  with  their  appropriate  tools,  fixtures,  and  parts. 

6.  Wood-working  machines  with  their  appropriate  tools,  fixtures,  and  parts. 

7.  Miscellaneous  machines  and  apparatus. 

8.  Hand  tools  for  working  leather,  cloth,  and  fiber. 

9.  Hand  tools  for  working  metal. 

10.  Hand  tools  for  working  wood. 

11.  Miscellaneous  hand  tools  and  utensils. 

CLASS  IV. 

Inspecting  instruments  used  in  manufactures,  as  follows: 

1.  Inspecting  instruments  for  cannon. 

2.  Inspecting  instruments  for  carriages. 

3.  Inspecting  instruments  for  artillery  ammunition. 

4.  Inspecting  instruments  for  small  arms. 

5.  Inspecting  instruments'  for  small-arms  ammunition. 

6.  Inspecting  instruments  for  equipments  and  miscellaneous  articles. 

CLASS  V. 

Materials  for  current  service  and  for  manufacturing  purposes  at  ordnance  establish- 
ments, as  follows: 

1.  Stationery  and  other  office  and  drafting  supplies. 

2.  Cloth,  rope,  textiles,  thread,  etc. 

3.  Forage. 

4.  Foundry  supplies;  as  crucibles,  fire  brick,  molding  sand,  facings,  etc. 

5.  Hardware. 

6.  Metals,  in  pigs,  ingots,  bar3   billets,  and  sheets. 

7.  Metals,  in  castings,  forgings,  and  shapes. 

8.  Leather,  hides,  skins,  belting,  etc. 

9.  Lumber  and  timber. 

10.  Building  materials,  such  as  cement,  stone,  brick,  etc. 

11.  Heating  and  lighting  materials. 

12.  Electrical  supplies. 

13.  Photographic  materials. 

14.  Acids,  chemicals,  gums,  etc. 

15.  Oils. 

16.  Paints,  pitch,  resin,  tar,  varnish,  etc. 

17.  Cleaning  and  polishing  materials. 

18.  Miscellaneous  materials. 


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ABTICLE  IV. 

CARE  AND  PRESERVATION  OF  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

See  A.  R.  116,  203,  290,  292,  293,  596,  674,  675,  677,  689,  690,  691, 
692,  751,  1537,  1538,  1539,  and  1552  of  1913. 

54.  The  various  articles  of  ordnance  property,  consisting  of  spare 
parts  and  cleaning,  preserving,  and  repairing  supplies,  which  are 
issued  to  the  service  and  the  Organized  Militia  and  sold  to  educa- 
tional institutions,  etc.,  for  the  care  and  preservation  of  the  ordnance 
and  ordnance  stores  issued  to  them,  are  described  in  ordnance  price 
lists  and  in  pamphlets  descriptive  of  the  ordnance  and  ordnance 
stores  for  which  the  parts  and  supplies  are  required.    In  addition, 
these  pamphlets  and  other  manuals  generally  give  detailed  instruc- 
tions in  regard  to  the  care  and  preservation  of  the  articles  described 
and  %ref  erred  to  therein,  and  such  instructions  are  made  a  part  of 
these  regulations. 

55.  For  the  maintenance  and  improvement  of  the  seacoast  arma- 
ment and  its  equipment  armament  districts    are   established  and 
placed  in  charge  of  seacoast  armament  officers  by  War  Department 
orders. 

56.  For  the  maintenance  and  improvement  of  the  mobile  artillery 
and  its  equipment,  armament  districts  in  which  Field  Artillery  is 
stationed  are  established  and  placed  in  charge  of  mobile  artillery 
armament  officers  by  War  Department  orders. 

57.  When  troops  are  operating  hi  the  field  in  time  of  war  the 
chief  ordnance  officer  of  each  division,  expedition,  etc.,  will  be  pro- 
vided with  the  necessary  mechanics  for  the  purpose  of  making 
repairs  to  mobile  artillery  and  its  equipment  which  can  not  be  made 
in  the  several  batteries,  and  for  overhauling  and  repairing  ordnance 
property  which  has  been  turned  into  an  ordnance  depot  under  his 
charge. 

58.  Ordnance   sergeants,   senior   grade;  ordnance   sergeants;  ser- 
geants,  first  class;  sergeants;  corporals;  privates,   first  class;  and 
privates  are  assigned  to  garrisoned  posts  as  assistants  to  the  ord- 
nance officers  thereof  hi  the  care  and  repair  of  and  accountability 
for  the  property  for  which  they  are  responsible,  and  are  required  to 
perform  such  military  and  such  other  duty  in  connection  with  the 
preparation  of  reports  and  returns  concerning  ordnance  property  as 
are  incidental  and  necessary  for  the  work  and  which  are  not  to  be 
performed  by  other  enlisted  men,  in  accordance  with  the  regula- 
tions and  orders  upon  the  subject. 

When  ordnance  sergeants,  senior  grade,  or  ordnance  sergeants  are 
assigned,  to  ungarrisoned  posts,  they  will  perform  all  the  duties 
ordinarily  assigned  to  post  ordnance  officers  in  regard  to  the  care  of 
and  accountability  for  ordnance  property. 


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When  a  garrisoned  post  has  not  an  ordnance  sergeant  assigned  to 
it,  a  sergeant  or  corporal  of  ordnance  or  a  noncommissioned  officer  of 
tho  line  will  bo  detailed  as  an  acting  ordnance  sergeant  by  the  com- 
manding officer  of  the  post. 

59.  Small   arms,   saddle   blankets,    time-interval   recorders,    lead 
counterweights,  and  cartridge  cases  for  cannon,  being  articles  of 
ordnance  property  which  may  be  readily  disposed  of  by  evil-disposed 
persons,  responsible  officers  are  required  to  take  every  reasonable 
precaution  for  their  safe-keeping. 

60.  The  money  value  of  small  arms  that  may  be  lost  will  be 
charged  against  the  officers  reponsible  for  the  arms,  unless  it  is  shown 
that  every  reasonable  precaution  was  taken  to  prevent  the  loss. 

61.  Arm  racks  and  arm  lockers  for  the  safe-keeping  of  small  arms 
will  be  issued  by"  the  Ordnance  Departmen't.     Pistol  arm  lockers 
only  will  be  issued  to  organizations  armed  with  the  pistol  only. 
Both  rifle  and  pistol  arm  lockers  will  be  issued  to  Cavalry  organi- 
zations, Engineers  (partially  mounted),  Infantry  headquarters,  and 
machine-gun  companies.     Rifle  arm  lockers  only  will  be  issued  to 
other  organizations,  and  to  post  and  other  ordnance  supply  officers 
for  the  safe-keeping  of  all  small  arms.     Officers  who  are  responsible 
for  small  arms  and  who  neglect  to  obtain  these  lockers  will  be  regarded 
as  not  having  taken  reasonable  precautions  to  prevent  such  loss. 

62.  In  garrison,  when  small  arms  are  not  in  the  possession  of 
officers-or  enlisted  men  for  the  performance  of  a  military  duty,  they 
will  be  locked  in  the  arm  racks  or  arm  Cockers.     The  arm  racks  will 
be  used  for  the  safe-keeping  of  the  small  arms  in  daily  use  by  the 
organizations  to  which  they  have  been  issued,  and  the  arm  lockers 
for  such  arms  as,  are  not  required  to  be  frequently  used. 

63.  When  the  troops  are  operating  in  the  field,  responsible  officers 
are  not  required  to  take  arm  racks  or  arm  lockers  with  them  for  the 
safe-keeping  of  small  arms,  unless  it  is  convenient  to  do  so;  but  a 
system  will  be  devised  in  the  organization  which  will  provide  reason- 
able precautions  for  the  safe-keeping  of  arms  under  the  particular 
field  conditions  to  which  the  troops  are  subjected.     When  troops  oper- 
ating in  the  field  are  required  to  be  armed  at  all  times,  each  individual 
will  be  held  responsible  that  he  takes  reasonable  precautions  for  the 
safe-keeping  of  the  arms  issued  to  him.     When,  for  any  reason,  troops 
so  operating  are  not  permitted  to  be  armed  at  all  times,  responsible 
officers  will  have  the  pistols  and  revolvers  safeguarded  under  condi- 
tions that  will  provide  reasonable  precautions  for  their  safe-keeping. 
When  arm  racks  or  arm  lockers  are  not  available,  pistols  and  revolvers 
will  be  safeguarded  when  not  in  the  actual  possession  of  officers  or 
enlisted  men. 

64.  When  small  arms  are  issued*  to  or  received  from  enlisted  men 
in  an  organization,  the  arms  will  be  checked  in  and  out  from  arm 


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racks,  arm  lockers,  or  guards,  by  the  responsible  noncommissioned 
officer,  so  as  to  insure  that  the  arm  issued  to  or  received  from  an 
enlisted  man  is  the  one  with  which  he  is  charged  on  the  records  of  the 
organization,  and  that  in  case  of  loss  of  an  arm  the  responsibility 
may  be  readily  fixed  on  the  proper  person. 

65.  Enlisted  men  in  garrison,  when  so  directed,  will  be  required  on 
the  completion  of  a  military  duty  requiring  the  use  of  arms,  to  return 
to  the  proper  noncommissioned  officer,  unless  this  duty  is  immediately 
succeeded  by  another  duty  requiring  the  use  of  arms.     In  the  latter 
case,  the  arms  will  be  returned  on  the  completion  of  the  duty. 

66.  When  troops  are  in  garrison,  saddle  blankets,  time-interval 
recorders,  and  cartridge  cases  for  cannon  will,  when  practicable,  be 
kept  hi  locked  rooms  or  receptacles  for  their  safe-keeping.     Counter- 
weights are  required  to  be  secured  by  the  chains  and  locks  provided 
for  the  purpose. 

67.  The  application  of  oil  and  grease  to  cartridge  cases  has  a  tend- 
ency to  cause  the  cases  to  rupture  when  fired,  and,  therefore,  the  use 
of  such  lubricants  on  cases  is  prohibited.     When  practicable,  the 
chamber  of  each  rifle,  and  every  cartridge  case  before  being  placed 
in  it,  is  examined;  and  no  cartridge,  and  particularly  no  fired  case, 
is  kept  in  a  rifle  longer  than  is  necessary. 

68.  Officers  responsible  for  armor-piercing  and  deck-piercing  pro- 
jectiles are  required  to  have  them  marked  and  stored  under  such  con- 
ditions that  there  will  be  no  possibility  of  their  being  considered  as 
on  hand  for  target  practice.     When  projectiles  for  target  practice 
have  been  set  aside  for  immediate  firing,  they  will  be  inspected  by 
an  officer  to  ascertain  whether  or  not  there  are  any  armor-piercing 
or  deck-piercing  projectiles  among  them. 

69.  In  view  of  the  injurious  effects  of  moisture  and  dust  on  the 
lenses  of  optical  instruments,  the  latter  are  required  to  be  kept  or 
stored  under  such  conditions  as  will  insure  #s  much  freedom  from 
moisture  and  dust  as  can  be  obtained. 

70.  Commanding  officers  of  arsenals  and  other  ordnance  establish- 
ments, where  of  necessity  the  care  of  ordnance  property  must  be 
intrusted  to  civilian  employees,  are  required  to  introduce  such  local 
accounting  as  will  readily  fix  responsibility  on  the  proper  persons  for 
property  in  store,  use,  or  undergoing  manufacture,  and  the  waste 
products  arising  from  various  operations. 

71.  Whenever  a  complete  inspection  is  made  of  an  organized  body 
of  troops,  the  inspector  wijl  ascertain  where  there  is  on  hand  any 
excess  of  ordnance  property  over  the  needs  of  the  organization  or  any 
surplus  not  borne  on  the  returns,  and  will  inquire  into  and  report 
upon  such  excess  or  surplus  wherever  found  to  exist. 

72.  When  a  soldier  has  been  wounded,  he  may  leave  his  arms  and 
equipments  on  the  battle  field,  provided  the  officer  responsible  for 


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these  articles  decides  that  the  nature  of  the  injuries  received  require 
that  this  course  shall  be  followed.  If  a  soldier  is  taken  with  a  severe 
illness,  under  like  conditions,  similar  discretion  is  vested  in  the  respon- 
sible officer.  Ammunition  on  the  person  of  a  wounded  or  sick  soldier 
sent  from  the  battle  field  will  be  removed  and  distributed  among  the 
other  soldiers  on  the  firing  line. 

73.  When  a  soldier,  by  rqason  of  a  severe  illness  or  wounds,  is  sent 
to  a  regimental  or  field  hospital  without  his  arms  or  equipments,  his 
commanding  officer  will  have  these  articles  returned  to  the  organiza- 
tion to  which  the  soldier  belongs. 

74.  When  wounded  or  sick  soldiers   take    arms   or   equipments 
with  them  to  a  field  hospital,  the  surgeon  in  charge  or  the  ordnance 
officer  of  the  hospital  will  send  to  the  commanding  officer  of  the  organi- 
zation to  which  the  soldier  belongs  a  receipt  covering  the  arms  and 
equipments  received,  and  will  furnish  the  soldier  with  a  duplicate  of 
this  receipt.     The  arms  and  equipments  which  have  thus  accumulated 
at  a  hospital  are  required  to  be  accounted  for  by  the  surgeon  in  charge 
or  the  ordnance  officer  of  the  hospital  and,  from  time  to  time,  they 
will  be  turned  in  to  the  nearest  arsenal  or  ordnance  depot,  or  otherwise 
disposed  of  by  competent  authority. 

75.  After  an  engagement  commanding  officers  of  organizations  will 
make  it  one  of  their  first  duties  to  have  gathered  up  and  properly 
secured  all  ordnance  property  which  was  issued  to  such  soldiers  as  have 
been  killed. 

76.  The  several  States,  Territories,  and  the  District  of  Columbia 
are  required  to  provide  suitable  armories  for  the  safe-keeping  of  ord- 
nance property  of  the  United  States  issued  to  them. 

Organizations  of  the  National  Guard,  unless  they  are  serving  in 
the  field,  are  required  to  store  the  ordnance  property  issued  to  them 
in  the  armories  provided  for  the  purpose. 

77.  For  the  maintenance  and  improvement  of  the  mobile  artillery 
and  its  equipment  in  the  possession  of  the  National  Guard,  armament 
districts  in  which  militia  batteries  are  located  are  established  and 
placed  in  charge  of  mobile  artillery  armament  officers  by  War  Depart- 
.ment  orders. 

78.  Alteration  and  improvement  of  the  seacoast  armament  and  its 
equipment  and  of   the  mobile  artillery  and  its  equipment  in   the 
possession  of  the  Army  and  the  National  Guard  will  be  made  by  the 
seacoast    armament   officers    and    the    mobile    artillery    armament 
officers,  respectively,  as  directed  by  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  and  in 
accordance  with  the  methods  prescribed  in  orders  from  the  War 
Department.     The  seacoast  armament  and  the  batteries  of  mobile 
artillery  will  be  inspected  by  armament  officers  or  other  officers  of  the 
Ordnance  Department  from  time  to  time,  in  accordance  with  orders 


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issued  from  the  War  Department,  to  ascertain  that  they  are  properly 
cared  for  and  in  an  efficient  service  condition. 

79.  The  care  and  preservation  of  ordnance  property  issued  to 
other  organizations  than  the  Army  and  the  National  Guard  will  be 
at  the  expense  of  the  educational  institution,  home,  etc.,  to  which  it 
has  been  issued. 

ARTICLE  V. 

REQUISITIONS  FOR  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

See  A.  R.  193a,  1513,  1514,  1517,  1518,  1519,  and  1520  of  1913,  and 
the  regulations  governing  the*  National  Guard  of  the  United  States. 

80.  Requisitions  for  seacoast  cannon  and' their  carriages,  saluting 
guns,  subcaliber  guns  and  subcaliber  and  drill  cartridges,  telescopic 
sights,  fire-control  instruments,  fuses,  powders   (except  saluting), 
projectiles,  and  fixed  ammunition  for  the  equipment  of  the  seacoast 
armament  will  be  made  by  coast  defense  ordnance  officers  through 
coast  defense  commanders  and  Coast  Artillery  district  commanders 
on  the  commanding  officer  of  the  depot  designated  for  their  supply, 
except  that  hi  the  Philippine  Department  all  such  requisitions  will 
be  forwarded  to  the  department  commander  for  action,  and  that  in 
continental   United  States    and    the   Canal   Zone  requisitions  for 
ammunition  and  its  accessories  for  Coast  Artillery  armament  will 
be  forwarded  by  the  commanding  officers  of  the  designated  depots 
to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance. 

81.  Requisitions  for  seacoast  targets  and  target  accessories  and 
supplies,  articles  for  drafting  and  photoprinting  purposes,  pressure 
gauges   and   their  parts   and  accessories,   components  of  saluting 
rounds,   primers,   dummy  cartridges,   dummy  projectiles  and   the 
extractors  therefor,  and  such  other  articles  of  ordnance  property  as 
are  required  to  equip  the  seacoast  armament,  except  these  articles 
otherwise  provided  for  in  paragraphs  80  end  82  of  these  regulations, 
will  be  made  by  coast  defense  ordnance  officers  through  coast  defense 
commanders  and  Coast  Artillery  district  commanders  on  the  com- 
manding officer' of  the  depot  designated  for  their  supply,  except  that 
in  the  Philippine  Department  all  such  requisitions  will  be  forwarded 
to  the  department  commander  for  action.     When  such  requisitions 
are  received,  and  before  approval,  they  will  be  carefully  examined  to 
ascertain  if  the  kinds  and  quantities  of  the  article  requested  have 
been  authorized. 

82.  The  provisions  of  paragraph  1539,  Army  Regulations,  make  a 
seacoast  armament  officer  responsible  for  the  maintenance  of  the 
armament,    and,    therefore,    requisitions   for   the   following-named 
articles  of  ordnance  property  for  the  maintenance  of  the  seacoast 
armament  will  be  made  by  coast  defense  ordnance  officers,  through 


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coast  defense  commanders,  on  the  armament  officer  of  the  district 
concerned : 

(a)  Accessories  and  spare  parts  for  seacoast  and  land  defense 
cannon  and  their  carriages,  for  instruments  for  the  fire-control  system, 
and  for  machine  guns. 

(6)  Lamps,  lamp  sockets,  switches,  conduits,  conductors,  con- 
nections, and  other  parts  of  the  firing,  illumination,  and  power 
circuits  installed  on  seaooast  .carriages  and  the  fire-control  system. 

(c)  Machines,   tools,   and  supplies  for  installed  ordnance  repair 
shops,  and  tools  furnished  by  the  Ordnance  Department  for  engineer 
power  plants. 

(d)  Cleaning,  preserving,  and  marking  supplies,  consisting  of  oils, 
paints,  stencils,  etc;,  for  the  maintenance  of  seacoast  and  land  defense 
cannon  and  their  carriages,  instruments  for  the  fire-control  system, 
and  the  preservation  and  marking  of  projectiles,  cartridge  storage 
cases,  etc. 

(e )  Articles  for  mechanical  maneuvers. 

(/)  Such  other  parts,  accessories,  implements,  and  equipments  as 
are  required  for  the  maintenance  of  the  installed  armament  and  land 
defense  materiel. 

(g)  The  requisitions  for  the  semiannual  allowances  of  cleaning, 
preserving,  and  marking  supplies,  and  for  the  spare  parts  to  com- 
plete authorized  allowances,  will  be  submitted  on  January  1  and 
July  1  of  each  year. 

83.  When  Field  Artillery  troops  are  in  garrison  or  in  the  field  in 
time  of  peace,  requisitions  for  mountain,  light,  and  heavy  cannon 
and  their  carriages,  limbers,  caissons,  forge  and  battery  wagons,  and 
other  artillery  vehicles,  saluting  guns,  fuse  setters,  subcaliber  and 
drill  cartridges,  and  ammunition   (except  subcaliber  and  saluting) 
for  mountain,  light,  and  heavy  cannon  will  be  made  by  regimental 
or  other  unit  ordnance  officers  through  the  post  or  camp  supply 
officer,  division  or  separate  brigade  commanders  on  the  commanding 
officer  of  the  depot  designated  for  their  supply,  except  that  in  tl>e 
Philippine  Department  all  such  requisitions  wifl  be  forwarded  to  tlie 
department  commander  for  action. 

84.  Requisitions  for  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  that  are  not 
standard  articles  of  issue  and  for  quantities  of  standard  articles  when  it 
is  expressly  stated  that  they  are  required  in  excess  of  the  prescribed 
allowance  will  be  forwarded  by  division,  Coast  Artillery,  district  and 
separate  brigade  commanders  to  the  department  commander  when 
such  articles  can  not  be  supplied  from  the  depots  under  their  com- 
mand. 

85.  When  troops  are  in  garrison  or  in  the.  field  in  time  of  peace 
requisitions  for  such  articles  of  ordnance  property  as  are  not  expressly 
provided  for  in  the  preceding  sections  of  this  article  will  be  made  by 


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regimental  or  other  unit  ordnance  officers  on  the  post  or  camp  or  other 
designated  supply  officers.  Authorized  issues  thereon  will  be  made 
as  far  as  practicable  and  if  sufficient  stores  are  not  available  special 
requisition  therefor  will  at  once  be  made  by  the  ordnance  officer 
concerned  through  proper  channels  on  the  commanding  officer  of 
the  arsenal  or  depot  designated  for  their  supply. 

When  requisitions  referred  to  in  this  paragraph  have  been  acted 
upon  by  department,  division,  Coast  Artillery  district  or  separate 
brigade  commanders,  they  will  be  sent  to  the  following-named 
arsenals  or  depots  to  be  filled: 

(a)  Requisitions  from  the  post  or  camp  ordnance  officers  or  other 
designated  supply  officers  of  the  Northeastern,  Eastern,  Southeastern, 
and  Panama  Canal  Departments,  to  the  commanding  officer  New  York 
Arsenal,  Watervliet  Arsenal,  Augusta  Arsenal,  or  San  Antonio  Arsenal, 
depending  upon  locality,  except  that  requisitions  for  small-arms 
and  machine-gun  parts  may  be  sent  to  commanding  officer  Spring- 
field Armory,  Augusta  Arsenal,  or  San  Antonio  Arsenal,  depending 
upon  locality,  and  that  requisitions  for  components  of  *  saluting 
ammunition  (except  powder)  and  small-arms  ammunition  will  be 
sent  to  the  commanding  officer  Frankford  Arsenal;  for  mobile  artil- 
lery, targets  and  target  accessories  and  supplies  to  the  commanding 
officer  Rock  Island  Arsenal,  and  for  saluting  powder  to  the  com- 
manding officer  Picatinny  Arsenal,  Augusta  Arsenal,  or  San  Antonio 
Arsenal,  depending  upon  locality. 

(6)  Requisitions  from  post  or  camp  ordnance  officers  or  other 
designated  supply  officers  of  the  Western  Department  to  the  com- 
manding officer  Benicia  Arsenal. 

(c)  Requisitions  from  post  or  camp  ordnance  officers  or  other 
designated  supply  officers  of  the  Central  Department  to  the  com- 
manding officer  Rock  Island  Arsenal. 

(d)  Requisitions  from  post  or  camp  ordnance  officers,  or  other 
designated  supply  officers  of  the  Southern  Department  to  the  com- 
manding officer,  San  Antonio  Arsenal,  except  for  mobile  artillery 
targets  and  target  accessories  and  supplies  to  the  commanding  officer 
Rock  Island  Arsenal. 

(e)  Requisitions  from  post  or  camp   ordnance  officers,  or  other 
designated  supply  officers  of  the  Philippine  Department,  to  the  com- 
manding officer  Manila  ordnance  depot. 

(f)  Requisitions  from  post  or  camp  ordnance  officers,  or  other 
designated  supply  officers  of  the  Hawaiian  Department  to  the  com- 
manding officer  Hawaiian  ordnance  depot. 

86.  When  a  requisition  has  been  received  by  the  commanding 
officer  of  an  arsenal  or  other  ordnance  establishment  authorized  to 
make  issues,  as  contemplated  by  the  preceding  paragraphs  of  this 
article,  he  will  fill  it  to  the  extent  authorized  by  existing  orders  and 


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in  accordance  with  the  supply  tables  and  the  instructions  published 
by  the  Chief  of  Ordnance. 

If  a  requisition  has  been  approved  by  a  division,  Coast  Artillery 
district,  or  separate  brigade  commander  and  transmitted  to  the 
commanding  officer  of  an  arsenal  or  depot  to  be  filled,  which  calls  for 
the  issue  of  articles  of  ordnance  property  in  excess  of  the  prescribed 
allowances,  or  for  any  other  reason  it  can  not  be  filled  as  approved, 
it  will  nevertheless  be  filled  to  the  extent  authorized  by  existing 
orders,  instructions,  and  supply  tables.  The  requisition  will  then  be 
forwarded  with  report  required  by  193a  A.  R.  for  appropriate  action 
to  the  department  commander  concerned. 

If  a  requisition  has  been  received  by  a  commanding  officer  of  an 
arsenal  or  depot,  requiring  properly  the  issue  of  articles  of  ordnance 
property  ,which  can  not  be  procured  at  that  arsenal  or  depot,  the 
commanding  officer  will  fill  the  requisition  as  far  as  it  is  practicable 
for  him  to  do  so,  and  will  then  forward  it,  or  abstracts  thereof,  through 
proper  channels,  to  the  arsenal  or  arsenals  charged  with  the  procuring 
of  such  articles  of  ordnance  property  with  request  that  the  com- 
manding officers  thereof  make  the  issue  directly  to  the  officer  re- 
quiring the  property. 

87.  When  mountain,  light,  heavy,  or  siege  canon  and  their  car- 
riages and  other  artillery  vehicles,  sights,  implements,  equipments, 
fire  control  instruments,  etc.,  constituting  the  equipment  of  mobile 
artillery  batteries  and  headquarters  detachments,  or  the  materiel  of 
machine-gun  organizations  are  in  need  of  repairs  requiring  the  services 
of  skilled  mechanics  of  the  Ordnance  Department,  the  commanding 
officer  of  the  organization  concerned  will  submit,  through  military 
channels,  a  report  to  the  armament  officer  or  other  ordnance  officer 
charged  with  the  repairs  of  the  materiel,  describing  the  character 
and  extent  of  the  repairs  required  and  the  cause  of  the  damaged 
condition  of  each  article.  Upon  receipt  of  such  a  report,  the  arma- 
ment officer  will  cause  the  repairs  to  be  made.  If  the  repairs  are  of 
such  a  character  that  they  can  not  be  made  by  the  personnel  of  the 
organization,  he  will  furnish  for  the  purpose  such  skilled  mechanics 
and  materials  as  may  be  required,  and  will  inform  the  commanding 
officer  of  the  organization  in  advance  of  the  probable  date  on  which 
the  mechanics  will  arrive,  and  will  instruct  the  latter  to  report  in 
person  upon  their  arrival  to  this  officer.  The  commanding  officer 
of  the  organization,  in  the  absence  of  an  officer  of  the  Ordnance 
Department,  will  keep  a  record  of  the  hours  worked  each  day  by 
each  man,  and  on  completion  of  the  repairs  will  forward  a  report  of 
the  time  to  the  armament  officer,  showing  the  date  and  hour  of  the 
arrival  of  each  mechanic  and  the  manner  in  which  he  conducted 
himself  while  on  duty.  If  the  repairs  are  of  such  a  character  that 
they  can  be  made  by  the  personnel  of  the  organization,  the  repairs 


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should  be  so  made.  The  armament  officer  will  furnish  the  necessary 
material  required. 

When  the  repairs  can  not  be  made  at  the  post  by  the  personnel  as 
referred  to  above,  or  when  they  are  of  such  slight  character  as  not 
to  justify  the  expense  of  sending  a  mechanic  to  the  post,  the  armament 
officer  will  inform  the  organization  commander  how  these  repairs 
can  be  made  most  expeditiously  and  satisfactorily.  Authority  is 
given  to  the  armament  officer  to  authorize  shipment  of  articles  of  such 
limited  weight  as  may  be  transported  through  the  mails  or  by  express 
at  the  minimum  rate,  as  follows:  To  Watervliet  Arsenal,  breech 
mechanisms  or  parts  thereof;  to  Frankford  Arsenal,  sights,  range 
quadrants,  range-finding  materiel,  fuse  setters  or  parts  thereof;  to  the 
Springfield  Armory,  machine-gun  materiel  except  packs;  all  other 
materiel  to  the  Rock  Island  Arsenal,  except  that  in  the  Philippine 
Department  articles  requiring  repairs  will  be  mailed  or  shipped  to  the 
commanding  officer,  Manila  Ordnance  Depot.  If  it  is  considered 
that  the  repairs  can  be  made  at  the  arsenal  or  depot  at  which  the 
armament  officer  is  located,  shipments  may  be  made  thereto  as 
referred  to  above.  If  the  repairs  are  considerable,  or  if  they  involve 
work  on  articles  that  are  too  bulky  to  be  shipped  as  above  described, 
the  armament  officer  charged  with  repair  of  the  materiel  will  request 
the  proper  commander  to  direct  the  shipment  to  an  arsenal  or  depot 
to  be  designated  by  the  former.  '  When  it  is  necessary  to  turn  in,  to 
an  arsenal  for  repairs  articles  the  absence  of  which  will  decrease  the 
efficiency  of  the  organization,  the  armament  officer  will  have  the 
articles  replaced  at  once,  if  practicable,  and  in  other  cases  will 
expedite  the  completion  of  repairs  or  issue  of  new  parts  to  the  greatest 
possible  extent  hi  order  that  the  materiel  of  the  organizations  may  be 
maintained  at  all  times  in  the  best  possible  condition  for  service. 
The  organization  commander,  however,  will  be  held  responsible  that 
all  of  his  equipment  is  complete  and  serviceable  unless  he  can  show 
that  he  has  exhausted  every  means  hi  his  power  to  replace  unservice- 
able equipment  or  to  obtain,  the  additional  equipment  required. 
Delays  hi  repairs  or  hi  filling  requisitions  will  be  reported  by  him  to 
the  Chief  of  Ordnance  through  the  department  division  or  separate 
brigade  commander. 

88.-  When  Field  Artillery  troops  are  serving  in  the  field  in  time 
of  war  and  the  materiel  of  a  battery  is  in  need  of  repairs  reqtiiring  the 
services  of  skilled  mechanics  of  the  Ordnance  Department,  the  com- 
manding officer  of  the  battery  concerned  will  submit  a  report,  either 
orally  or  in  writing,  to  the  chief  armament  officer,  describing  the 
character  and  extent  of  the  repairs  required  and  the  cause  of  the 
damaged  condition  of  each  article.  The  chief  armament  officer  of 
the  division,  expedition,  etc.,  will  have  the  repairs  made  by  mechanics 
assigned  to  him  for  this  work. 


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89.  When  troops  are  in  the  field  in  time  of  war  requisitions  for  such 
articles  of  ordnance  property  as  may  be  needed  by  regimental  ordnance 
officers  will  be  made  on  the  ordnance  officer  of  the  division  or  expedi- 
tion concerned,  who  will  provide  for  making  the  appropriate  issues 
from  the  ordnance  depot  directly  under  his  charge. 

When  troops  are  engaged  in  active  operations  against  an  enemy, 
requisitions  may  be  submitted  orally  on  the  ordnance  officer  whose 
facilities  for  making  prompt  issues  are  the  greatest,  without  requiring 
requisitions  to  pass  through  immediate  commanders.  Whenever 
practicable  hi  such  cases  the  officer  making  requisition  will  submit 
his  requisition  in  the  form  of  an  invoice  and  receipt,  each  in  duplicate, 
covering  transfer  of  the  articles  desired,  which  will  provide  for  a 
more  expeditious  issue  of  the  property. 

90.  When  a  commanding  officer  of  an  arsenal  or  permanent  ord- 
nance depot  requires  a  supply  of  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  to  be 
procured  from  an  arsenal  or  other  ordnance  establishment,  he  will 
make  requisitions  on  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  for  the  quantities  of  the 
articles  he  desires,  giving  in  full  on  the  requisition  .the  necessity  for 
the  proposed  transfer  of  the  property. 

But  in  time  of  war  or  other  pressing  emergency,  a  commanding 
officer  of  an  arsenal  or  permanent  ordnance  depot  may  make  requisi- 
tion for  the  quantities  of  ordnance  property  he  desires  directly  on  the 
commanding  officer  of  the  arsenal  or  ordnance  establishment  at  which 
such  articles  are  ordinarily  procured  or  stored.  In  such  cases  the 
requiring  officer  will  immediately  furnish  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  with 
a  copy  of  the  requisition  that  he  has  so  made. 

91.  When  a  commanding  officer  of  an  ordnance  depot  in  the  field 
requires  a  supply  of  ordnance  stores  to  bo  procured  from  a  depot  or 
arsenal  designated  as  his  source  of  supply,  he  will  make  requisition 
.directly  on  the  commanding  officer.     An  advance  depot  will  be  sup- 
plied directly  from  the  parent  depot  unless  a  more  convenient  source 
of  supply  is  available. 

92.  When  the  commanding  officer  of  an  ordnance  depot  at  a  train- 
ing camp  requires  a  supply  of  ordnance  stores,  he  will  make  requisition 
directly  on  the  commanding  officer  of  the  ordnance  establishment  or 
establishments  designated  by  the  War  Department  to  supply  the 
depot  in  question,  for  all  standard  articles  of  issue  required  for  original 
outfit  and  maintenance.     Requisitions  for  other  than  standard  arti- 
cles or  for  unusual  quantities  will  be  forwarded  to  the  War  Depart- 
ment for  approval  with  a  statement  of  the  necessity  for  the  issue. 

93.  Requisitions  as  provided  for  in  the  preceding  paragraphs  of 
these  requlations  will  be  made,  except  as  provided  for  in  paragraph 
155  of  these  regulations,  when  submitted  in  writing,  for  all  articles 
of  ordnance  property  pertaining  to  the  armament  and  equipment  of 
the  Field  Artillery  and  foot  and  mounted  troops  on  Form  No.  386  and 


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for  the  articles  constituting  the  seacoast  armament  on  Form  No.  388. 
When  in  cases  of  emergency  requisitions  are  made  by  telegraph  the 
telegram  will  give,  as  far  as  practicable,  the  information  called  for 
on  the  forms  herein  mentioned. 

94.  Whenever  the  material  of  a  field  battery  or  headquarters  organ- 
ization, or  parts  thereof,  including  range-finding  instruments,  harness 
and  equipments  are  in  need  of  repairs  requiring  thr  services  of  skilled 
mechanics  of  the  Ordnance  Department,  the  commanding  officer  of 
the  battery  or  headquarter  organization  will  submit,  through  military 
channels,  to  the  adjutant  general  of  the  State,  Territory,  or  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia  Militia,  a  report  describing  in  detail  the  character 
and  extent  of  the  repairs  required  and  the  cause  of  the  damaged  condi- 
tion of  each  article.  The  adjutant  general  of  the  State,  Territory  or 
the  District  of  Columbia  Militia,  if  the  making  of  the  repairs  is  approved 
by  him,  will  forward  the  report  directly  to  the  ordnance  officer  charged 
with  the  inspection  and  repair  of  the  materiel,  with  request  that  the 
repairs  be  made  by  the  Ordnance  Department,  and  their  cost  charged 
to  the.  apportionment  of  the  State,  Territory,  or  the.  District  of  Colum- 
bia. Upon  receipt  of  such  request  the  ordnance  officer  in  charge  will, 
by  direct  communication  with  the  commanding  officer  of  the  battery 
or  headquarters  organization,  arrange  for  making  them  at  a  convenient 
time,  and  inf  orm  the  commanding  officer  of  the  battery  or  headquarters 
organization  of  the  probable  number  of  men  that  will  be  required  to 
assist  the  mechanic  or  mechanics  designated  to  make  the  repairs. 
The  repairs  generally  will  be  made  by  skilled  mechanics  of  the  Ord- 
nance Department  sent  for  the  purpose,  although,  if  desired  by  the 
battery,  and  if  the  ordnance  officer  approves  thereof,  the  work  may 
be  performed  by  the  battery^  mechanic.  If  done  by  ordnance 
mechanics,  the  latter  will  report  their  arrival  and  departure  hi  person 
to  the  commanding  officer  of  the  battery  or  headquarter  organiza- 
tion, who,  in  the  absence  of  an  officer  of  the  Ordnance  Department, 
will  supervise  the  work  done  by  the  mechanics,  keep  a  record  of  the 
number  of  hours  worked  each  day  by  each  mechanic,  and  upon  com- 
pletion of  the  repairs  will  forward  the  time  record  tp  the  ordnance 
officer  in  charge,  with  a  statement  showing  the  date  and  hour  of 
arrival  and  departure  of  each  mechanic  and  the  manner  in  which 
he  conducted  himself  while  on  duty.  Upon  completion  of  the  work 
the  ordnance  officer  in  charge  will  report  the  cost  thereof  to  the 
Chief  of  Ordnance,  who  will  make  a  report  to  the  Chief  of  the  Militia 
Bureau.  No  repairs  for  any  State,  Territory,  or  the  District  of  Co- 
lumbia shall,  however,  be  'made  if  the  cost  thereof  exceeds  the 
amount  available  and  designated  for  such  work.  The  cost  of  trans- 
portation of  materials,  tools,  and  supplies  required  in  making  the 
repairs  will  be  reported  to  the  Chief  of  the  Militia  Bureau  by  the  Chief 
of  the  Quartermaster  Corps  of  the  Army. 


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95.  Requisitions  from   presidents   of  educational  institutions   or 
governors  or  superintendents  of  State  soldiers'  and  sailors'  orphans' 
homes,  for  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  authorized  by  section  1225, 
Revised  Statutes,  as  amended,  and  by  the  act  of  Congress  approved 
June  30,  1906,  will  be  made  in  the  form  of  a  letter  addressed  to  the 
Chief  of  Ordnance,  and  these  applications  must  have  the  approval 
of  the  governor  of  the  State  in  which  the  institution  or  home  is 
located.     When  the  request  is  for  ordnance  stores  for  State  or  Terri- 
torial institutions,  or  State  soldiers'  and  sailors'  orphans'  homes,  the 
original  application  is  required  to  be  accompanied  by  a  certificate  of 
the  secretary  of  the  State  or  Territory,  or  other  proper  officer,  that 
the  institution  was  established  by  and  is  under  the  supervision  and 
control  of  the  Stntc  or  Territory. 

When  the  president  of  the  institution  or  governor  of  the  home  shall 
have  indicated  whether  individuals  or  a  corporation  will  act  as  prin- 
cipal and  as  to  whether  the  sureties  will  be  individuals  or  a  corpora- 
tion, the  Chief  of  Ordnance  will  prepare  the  bond  on  Form  No.  1422 
for  execution  by  the  principal  and  the  surety  or  sureties.  Upon  the 
return  of  the  bond,  and  its  acceptance,  instructions  will  be  given  for 
the  issue  of  the  stores. 

Requisitions  for  the  authorized  allowance  of  ammunition  for  target 
practice  and  the  instruction  of  the  students  at  educational  institu- 
tions and  inmates  of  the  homes  are  not  required  to  be  accompanied 
by  the  bond  referred  to  in  the  preceding  part  of  tliis  paragraph. 

Detailed  instructions  in  regard  to  the  conditions  under  which 
ordnance  property  may  be  issued  to  educational  institutions  and  State 
soldiers'  and  sailors'  orphans'  homes,  character  of  the  stores  so  issued, 
etc.,  arc  published  from  time  to  time  in  orders  from  the  War  Depart- 
ment. 

96.  Requisitions  for  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  for  educational 
institutions,  authorized  by  the  act  of  Congress  approved  June  3,  1916, 
to  have  them,  will  be  sent  io  the  commander  of  the  territorial  depart- 
ment in  which  the  institution  is  located.     The  department  commander 
will  forward  the  requisitions  to  the  War  Department  with  remark  and 
recommendation  as  to  the  stores  he  finds  should  be  issued,  if  available. 
A  bond  in  the  vnlue  of  all  Government  property  to  be  issued  for  the 
cure  and  safe-keeping  thereof,  and  for  its  return  when  required,  will 
be  furnished  to  the  Quartermaster  General,  and  the  Quartermaster 
General  will  furnish  the  chief  of  every  other  supply  department  con- 
cerned with  official  information  showing  amount  credited  on  the  bond 
to  cover  the  property  pertaining  to  his  department  or  corps.     Gov- 
ernment property  to  an  amount  in  excess  of  that  covered  by  the  bond 
will  not  be  issued.     Blank  forms  for  bonds  and  instructions  for  their 
preparation  will  bo  obtained  from  the  Quartermaster  General. 


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Detailed  instructions  in  regard  to  the  conditions  under  which 
ordnance  property  may  be  issued  to  such  institutions,  the  character 
of  the  stores  so  issued,  etc.,  are  published  from  time  to  time  in  orders 
from  the  War  Department. 

97.  Requisitions  from  the  principals  of  schools  for  arms  authorized 
by  the  act  of  Congress  approved  April  27,  1914,  will  bo  submitted  to 
the  Chief  of  Ordnance,  and  will  specify  the  actual  number  of  uniformed 
cadets  who  receive  military  instruction,  and  who  will  engage  in  target 
practice.     These  applications  must  have  the  approval  of  the  adjutant 
general  of  the  State  or  governor  of  the  Territory,  and  of  the  superin- 
tendent of  schools  of  the  city,  town,  or  district,  or  chairman  of  the 
board  of  trustees,  or  other  governing  body  of  the  school  applying 
for  the  arms. 

Should  the  bond  providing  for  the  care,  safe-keeping,  etc.,  of  arms 
issued  to  any  school  be  signed  by  an  individual,  such  individual 
should  be  one  having  a  directory  control  over  the  school,  as  superin- 
tendent, principal,  trustee,  etc. 

Requisitions  for  the  authorized  allowances  of  ball  cartridges  for 
target  practice  will  be  forwarded  annually  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance 
before  July  1  of  each  year,  or  as  soon  after  that  date  as  practicable. 
Allowances  not  drawn  in  ojie  year  can  not  be  drawn  in  the  succeeding 
year. 

98.  Requisitions  from  the  presidents  or  other  executive  officers  of 
rifle  clubs  for  arms  authorized  by  the  act  of  Congress  approved  April 
g7,  1914,  will  be  submitted  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  and  will  state  the 
number  of  members  in  good  standing.     Each  application  must  bear 
the  approval  of  the  adjutant  general  of  the  State,  governor  of  the 
Territory,  or  adjutant  general  of  the  National  Guard  of  the  District 
of  Columbia,  arid  must  also  be  accompanied  by  a  certificate  from  the 
secretary  of  the  National  Rifle  Association  to  the  effect  that  the  club 
applying  for  the  arms  is  organized  under  the  rules  of  the  National 
Board  and  affiliated  with  the  National  Rifle  Association  of  America. 

Should  the  bond  providing  for  the  care,  safe-keeping,  etc.,  of  arms 
issued  to  any  rifle  club  be  signed  by  an  individual,  such  individual 
should  be  one  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  club,  such  as  the 
president,  vice  president,  secretary,  etc. 

Requisitions  for  the  authorized  allowances  of  ball  cartridges  for 
target  practice  will  be  forwarded  annually  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance 
before  July  1  of  each  year  or  as  soon  after  that  date  as  practicable. 
Allowances  not  drawn  in  one  year  can  not  be  drawn  in  the  succeeding 
year. 

99.  Requisitions  for  letter  and  note  paper  having  printed  headings, 
required  at  arsenals  and  other  ordnance  establishments,  and  fop 
envelopes  required  at  ordnance  establishments  outside  of  the  terri- 
torial limits  of  the  United  States,  will  be  forwarded  to  the  Chief  of 


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Ordnance  not  later  than  April  15  of  each  year;  and  requisitions  for 
the  hlank  forms,  blank  books,  and  other  printed  matter  will  be  for- 
warded not  later  than  April  30  of  each  year.  These  requisitions  \vifl 
be  prepared  on  Form  No.  389,  in  accordance  with  the  instructions 
printed  thereon. 

Requisitions  will  be  made  for  only  the  actual  quantities  desired 
throughout  the  succeeding  fiscal  year,  for  when  issues  are  made  pro-- 
viding  for  a  longer  period  than  one  year  it  is  probable  that  many  of 
the  blank  forms  issued  will  become  obsolete  before  they  shall  hove 
been  utilized  for  the  purposes  for  which  they  were  authorized. 

When  the  supply  of  blank  forms,  stationery,  etc.,  is  found  to  be 
insufficient  for  the  needs  of  the  remainder  of  a  fiscal  year,  an  addi- 
tional requisition  will  be  submitted  on  Form  No.  389  to  provide  for 
the  desired  quantities.  In  this  case  the  heading  of  the  blank  form 
will  be  modified  to  show  that  the  quantities  desired  are  for  the 
remainder  of  the  year  only,  and  the  heading  "Number  used  during 
the  year  just  ended"  will  be  modified  to  read  "Number  used  during 
the  year  to  date,"  and  the  entries  made  accordingly. 

Commanding  officers  of  arsenals  and  other  ordnance  establishments 
in  the  United  States  arc  authorized  to  order  envelopes  directly  from 
the  contractors  and  to  make  payment  for  the  same  under  the  terms 
of  the  contracts  awarded  by  the  Postmaster  General  for  supplying 
the  several  executive  departments  of  the  Government  with  envelopes. 

100.  Pamphlets  descriptive  of  the  various  articles  of  ordnance 
property  are  issued  directly  to  tho  service  by  the  Chief  of  Ordnance 
on  their  publication,  in  accordance  with  orders  issued  from  tho  War 
Department.  Applications  for  such  pamphlets  pertaining  to  tho 
branch  of  the  service  to  which  an  officer  belongs  may  be  made  by 
him  for  his  individual  use.  TTlion  an  officer  makes  application  for  a 
pamphlet,  and  he  has  already  been  supplied  with  one  of  tho  same 
edition,  tho  application  will  bo  accompanied  by  an  explanation  of 
the  reason  for  tho  additional  one  or  showing  the  disposition  of  the 
one  already  furnished  him. 

Requisitions  or  applications  for  the  various  blank  forms  furnished 
by  the  Ordnance  Department  will  bo  made  annually  directly  to  the 
Chief  of  Ordnance,  not  later  than  April  30  of  onch  year,  by  tho  offi- 
cers using  them,  except  as  noted  below,  and  that  in  .the  Philippine 
and  Hawaiian  Departments  applications  will  be  made  directly  to  the 
ordnance  officers  of  those  departments;  but  when  troops  are  operat- 
ing in  the  field,  in  time  of  war,  applications  for  those  forms  will  be 
made  to  the  ordnance  officer  of  the  division,  expedition,  etc.,  to  which 
the  requiring  officer  belongs. 

Applications  for  blank  forms  will  give  the  form  number  and  state 
the  quantity  of  each  form  desired,  based  upon  the  needs  of  the  fol- 

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lowing  fiscal  year;  when  apparently  excessive  quantities  are  re- 
quested, the  request  will  be  accompanied  by  an  explanation  showing 
the  need  for  the  quantities  desired.  Applications  for  forms  to  consti- 
tute a  return  of  ordnance  property  will  be  based  on  the  kind  of  ord- 
nance property  for  which  the  officer  or  other  person  is  accountable. 

Application  for  blank  forms  may  be  made  by  the  post  or  regimental 
ordnance  officers  on  bohalf  of  the  officers  of  the  post  or  regiment  using 
them,  but  in  these  cases  the  application  is  required  to  show  the  quan- 
tities of  the  forms  on  hand  in  the  possession  of  the  officers  using  them. 

Return  and  voucher  forms  used  by  regimental  and  other  unit  sup- 
ply officers  will  be  obtained  upon  application  from  department,  divi- 
sion, or  separate  brigade  headquarters. 

101.  Officers  and  other  custodians  of  ordnance  property,  in  pre- 
paring requisitions  for  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,  are  required  to 
describe  the  articles  called  for  in  accordance  with  the  standard  no- 
menclature, which  will  obviate  any  misunderstanding  on  the  part  of 
issuing  officers  in  regard  to  the  articles  actually  needed  and  prevent 
any  delay  in  making  issues  which  would  ordinarily  result  from  incor- 
rectly naming  the  articles  required. 

In  view  of  the  restrictions  placed  on  transportation  companies  cov- 
ering the  shipment  of  powder  and  other  ammunition,  requisitions  will 
be  submitted  sufficiently  far  in  advance  of  the  actual  need  of  these 
articles  and  of  other  articles  of  ordnance  property  called  for  thereon, 
so  that  they  will  reach  the  requiring  officer  at  the  proper  time  and  by 
the  most  economical  means  vof  transportation. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

TRANSFERS  OF  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

See  A.  R.  663,  660,  666,  667,  668,  669,  670,  671,  672,  673,  907,  1532, 
1533,  1535,  1536,  1537,  1538,  1539,  1540, 1542,  1544, 1545,  1546,  1547, 
and  1548  of  1913,  and  the  regulations  governing  the  National  Guard 
of  the  United  States. 

102.  When  troops  are  in  garrison  or  in  the  field  in  time  of  peace, 
transfers  of  ordnance  property  to  their  supply  officer  from  the  des- 
ign n  ted  arsenals  or  ordnance  depots  are  based  on  approved  requisi- 
tions and  on  orders  given  by  a  separate  brigade,  division,  or  depart- 
ment commander  through  the  chief  ordnance  officer,  and  from  post 
or  camp  ordnance  officers  on  approved  requisitions  and  on  orders  of 
the  post  or  camp  commander. 

103.  When  troops  are  operating  in  the  field  in  time  of  war,  trans- 
fers of  ordnance  property  to  their  supply  officers  are  based  on  requi- 
sitions or  orders  given  by  the  gonentl  or  field  officer  commanding  «n 
army,  division,  or  separate  brigade.     Such  transfers  will  bo  made 
from  ordnance  depots  under  the  command  or  control  of  the  officer 
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104.  Transfers  of  ordnance  property  between  arsenals  or  permanent 
ordnance  depots  are  made  on  the  order  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance. 

105.  Transfers  of  ordnance  property  to  the  National  Guard  from 
arsenals  and  other  ordnance  establishments  are  made  on  requisitions 
approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  and  to  educational  institutions, 
Stato  soldiers'  and  sailors'  orphans'  homes,  the  District  of  Columbia, 
posts  of  the  Grand  Army  of  tho  Republic,  soldiers'  monument  associ- 
ations, riflo  clubs,  schools,  etc.,  on  requests  approved  by  the  Chief  of 
Ordnance. 

106.  Transfers  of  surplus  serviceable  ordnance  property  from  post 
ordnance  officers  to  arsenals,  if  in  sufficient  quantities  to  warrant 
separate  shipments,  are  made  on  the  order  of  a  department  com- 
mander, and  to  an  ordnance  depot  on  the  order  of  the  division  or  sep- 
arate brigade  commander  in  whoso  command  the  depot  is  located. 

107.  Transfers  of  surplus  serviceable  ordnance  property  between 
organizations  at  a  post  and  between  the  post  ordnance  officer  and 
the  commanding  officers  of  organizations  at  the  post  are  made  by 
order  of  tho  post  commander.     Transfers  of  surplus  serviceable  ord- 
nance property  between  posts  in  a  department  are  made  on  the 
order  of  the  department  commander. 

108.  Transfers  of  cannon  and  carriages  pertaining  to  tho  soacoast 
armament  will  not  be  made  between  posts  except  by  the  authority 
of  tho  Secretary  of  War. 

109.  When  troops  are  operating  in  the  field,  transfers  of  surplus 
serviceable  ordnance  property  between  organizations  or  between  or- 
ganizations and  officers  having  charge  of  reserve  supplies,  are  made 
on  the  order  of  the  general  or  field  officer  in  whose  command  the 
organization  or  officers  affected  are. 

110.  When  canteens  and  haversacks  have  been  issued  to  an  organ- 
ization and  marked  as  required  by  A.  R.  295  of  1913,  they  will  be 
retained  in  the  organization  until  they  shall  have  been  rendered  un- 
serviceable, except  hi  time  of  war,  when  they  may  be  issued  to  an- 
other organization  for  its  use  on  the  order  of  the  regimental  com- 
mander or  higher  authority. 

111.  Exchange  of  ordnance  property  arising  from  improvements 
made  therein  between  troops  and  the  arsenals  or  ordnance  depots  will 
bo  provided  for  in  orders  issued  by  the  War  Department. 

112.  Transfers  of  unserviceable  ordnance  property  in  possession  of 
troops  in  garrison  or  of  post  ordnance  officers,  which  has  been  con- 
demned and  ordered  turned  into  a  depot,  oT  which  has  been  directed 
turned  in  by  an  inspector  or  surveying  officer  will  be  made  as  pro- 
vided in  General  Order  26,  War  Department,  1917. 

113.  Transfers  of  unserviceable  ordnance  property,  in  the  possession 
of  troops  hi  the  Philippine,  Hawaiian,  and  Panama  Canal  Departments 


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which  has. been  condemned  and  ordered  turned  in  to  a  depot,  will 
be  shipped  to  the  local  ordnance  depot. 

114.  When  ordnance  property  ordered  destroyed  contains  rings, 
buckles,  and  other  triinmings  of  brass,  they  will  be  cut  off  by  enlisted 
labor  before  destruction  of  the  property  and  shipped  to  Rock  Island 
Arsenal,  except  in   the  Philippine,   Hawaiian,  and   Panama  Canal 
Departments,  where  they  will  be  shipped  to  the  local  ordnance  depot. 

115.  When  condemned  ordnance  property  ordered  turned  in  to  an 
arsenal  or  depot  (except  small  arms,  hand  arms,  and  personal  and 
horse  equipments,  which  will  first  be  turned  in  to  the  post  ordnance 
officer  as  required  by  A.  R.  907  of  1913),  weighs,  when  packed  for 
transportation,  less  than  100  pounds  it  will  be  transferred  to  the  post 
ordnance  officer  to  be  shipped  by  him  when  the  accumulation  of 
property  intended  for  the  same  arsenal  or  depot  shall  equal  or  exceed 
100  pounds;  but  when  the  means  of  transportation  are  owned  by 
the  Government,  condemned  property,  with  the  exceptions  above 
mentioned,  will  not  be  turned  over  to  the  post  ordnance  officer,  but 
will  be  shipped  at  such  times  as  will  be  most  convenient  for  the 
public  service. 

116.  When  troops  are  operating  in  the  field  in  time  of  war,  trans- 
fers of  unserviceable  ordnance  property  which  has  been  condemned 
and  ordered  turned  in  to  a  depot  will  generally  be  made  to  the  nearest 
ordnance  depot. 

117.  When  ordnance  property  has  been  condemned  and  directed 
to  be  turned  in  to  an  arsenal  or  ordnance  depot,  care  wiH  be  taken 
in  packing  it  to  prevent  it  from  becoming  more  unserviceable  by 
injury  in  transportation. 

118.  When  authorized  repairs  to  Field  Artillery  inaterial  in  the 
possession  of  the  National  Guard  can  not  be  made  at  the  station  of 
the  battery  by  ordnance  mechanics,   the   articles  required  to  be 
repaired  will  be  shipped  to  the  appropriate  arsenal  on  the  -order  of 
the  ordnance  officer  in  charge  of  the  Territorial  district  in  which  the 
battery  is  located;  when  authorized  alterations  are  required  to  be 
made  in  Field  Artillery  material  in  the  possession  of  the  National 
Guard,  the  articles  requiring  alteration  may  be  sent  by  the  Chief  of 
Ordnance  to  the  proper  arsenal  for  the  purpose  and  at  such  a  time 
as  would  be  most  convenient  to  the  proper  State  authorities. 

119.  Transfers  of  fired  cartridge  cases  for  cannon  and  small  arms, 
bandoleers,  empty  packing  boxes  for  caliber  .30  (model  of  1906) 
ammunition,  and  clips,  in  the  possession  of  troops  and  other  cus- 
todians of  ordnance  property,  to  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots,  are 
made  as  provided  for  in  orders  issued  by  the  War  Department. 

120.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  issued  to  or  received 
from  an  authorized  custodian  of  such  property,  such  as  an  officer  of 


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the  Army,  United  States  property  and  disbursing  officer  of  a  State, 
president  of  an  educational  institution,  etc.,  the  transaction  will  be 
fully  described  on  Form  No.  600,  A.  G.  O.  This  form  will  give  the 
name  of  the  officers  or  agents,  or  their  official  titles,  between  whom 
the  transactions  occurred,  the  method  of  shipment  of  the  property, 
and  the  authority  for  the  transfer.  The  quantities  and  articles  trans- 
ferred will  be  duly  described  in  the  columns  provided  for  the  purpose 
on  this  bank  form,  in  accordance  with  the  standard  nomenclature 
and  prescribed  classification,  the  part,  class,  and  section  of  each  group 
of  articles  being  stated  immediately  above  it. 

When  a  transfer  of  articles  involves  their  shipment,  the  box,  package, 
and  crate  numbers  will  be  stated  in  the  column  "Number  and  kind 
of  packages  and  weight,"  and  opposite  the  description  of  the  articles 
packed,  crated,  etc.,  so  as  to  clearly  indicate  the  box,  crate,  etc.,  in 
which  the  articles  have  been  packed;  the  numbers  of  the  boxes, 
packages,  crates,  etc.,  will  be  summarized  and  stated  on  the  blank 
form  immediately  below  the  description  of  the  articles;  and  the  total 
weight  of  the  shipment  will  be  given  in  the  column  provided  for  the 
purpose.  The  date  the  property-  is  transferred,  or  the  date  on  which 
it  is  prepared  for  shipment,  .is  the  date  of  the  invoicing  of  the  property, 
and  will  be  so  stated  on  the  blank  form.  When  the  transfer  involves 
shipment,  the  name  of  the  invoicing  officer,  or  of  the  arsenal  or  depot, 
date  of  invoice,  numbers  of  the  boxes,  and  the  name  and  address  of 
the  officer  to  whom  the  property  is  shipped,  which  are  required  by 
A.  R.  1547  of  1913  to  be  marked  on  each  box,  crate,  etc.,  will  be 
stated  in  the  space  reserved  for  the  purpose.  This  form,  when  thus 
prepared  and  signed  by  the  transferring  or  issuing  officer,  or  other 
custodian  of  ordnance  property  constitutes  an  invoice  of  ordnance 
property  and  a  voucher  to  the  return  of  the  receiving  officer,  and  is 
required  to  accompany  it.  For  the  purpose  of  record  and  accounta- 
bility five  copies  only  are  needed,  but  when  shipments  are  made  the 
number  required  by  A.  .R.  1548  of  1913  will  be  prepared.  Two 
copies  of  the  form  signed  by  the  issuing  officer  and  two  copies  un- 
signed, accompanied  by  the  shipping  list  described  in  A.  R.  1548, 
will  be  mailed  to  the  receiving  officer  so  as  to  reach  him,  if  practicable, 
before  the  receipt  of  the  articles  transferred. 

121.  When  a  transfer  of  ordnance  property  involves  its  shipment, 
the  invoicing  officer  is  required  to  prepare  a  shipping  list  giving  the 
contents  of  each  box,  crate,  or  package  constituting  the  shipment  and 
to  forward  it  to  the  receiving  officer  with  the  duplicate  invoices  and 
receipts  mentioned  in  the  preceding  paragraph.  When  the  notation 
on  the  invoice  of  the  property  indicates  clearly  the  contents  of  each 
box,  crate,  etc.,  the  shipping  list  will  be  omitted.  In  the  case  of 
minor  articles  of  ordnance  property,  such  as  spare  parts  for  small  arms, 
hardware,  etc.,  the  shipping  list  need  not  give  in  detail  the  quanta- 


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ties  of  each  kind  of  these  articles,  but  will  refer  to  the  contents  in 
general  terms  so  as  to  indicate  clearly  to  the  receiving  oflicer  the 
character  of  the  contents  of  the  boxes  so  packed. 

122.  When  chests  or  boxen  containing  pistols,  revolvers,  or  other 
valuable  stores  are  shipped  from  an  ordnance  establishment,  they 
will  be  sealed  by  using  steel  strips  of  the  following  approximate 
dimensions:  Length,  3|  inches;  width,  five-eighths  inch;  thickness, 
0.02  inch,  with  three  saw  teeth  near  each  end  three-eighths  inch  long 
and  one-eighth  inch  wide.     At  least  two  such  strips  for  both  top  and 
bottom  will  have  the  points  of  one  end  driven  into  sealing  recesses  on 
opposite  sides  and  folded  over  the  edge  in  such  manner  that  the  other 
end  may  be  driven  into  sealing  recesses  in  the  sides  of  the  boxes. 
Each  recess  will  then  be  filled  with  wax  and  a  seal  impression  im- 
printed therein  showing  the  ordnance  establishment  or  the  person 
preparing  the  shipment.     In  using  these  sealing  strips  care  must  be 
taken  that  the  edges  do  not  project  and  become  liable  to  dislodgment. 
Sealing  strips  of  proper  dimensions  will  be  furnished  by  the  command- 
ing officer  Springfield  Armory,  on  requisition. 

123.  When  the  transfer  of  ordnance  property  from  an  ordnance 
establishment  involves  shipment,  the  contents  of  each  box  or  chest 
will  be  given  on  one  of  the  ends  of  each  box;  but  when  a  box  con- 
tains quantities  of  numerous  kinds  of  articles  a  brief  description  only 
of  the  contents  will  be  stated,   as  "saddlery  hardware,"   "spare 
parts,"  etc.,  and  when  it  contains  pistols  or  revolvers  the  quantity 
thereof  will  not  be  stated.     When  a  transfer  of  ordnance  property 
from  other  posts  or  stations  -involve*  shipment,  a  brief  description 
only  of  the  contents  of  each  box  will  be  stated  on  the  end  thereof. 
All  boxes,  crates,  and  packages  of  ordnance  property,  prior  to  ship- 
ment, wiH  be  stenciled  with  the  "Shell  and  flame"  to  provide  for 
its  easy  separation  from  the  property  of  the  other  departments  of 
the  Army. 

124.  When  a  receiving  officer  receives  till  of  the  ordnance  property 
invoiced  to  him,  he  will  sign  the  receipt  in  duplicate,  giving  the  place 
and  date  of  the  receipt  of  the  property,  and- return  the  two  copies  to 
the  issuing  officer,  which  constitute  VOUCHERS  to  his  returns  and  are 
required  to  accompany  them.     When  a  receiving  officer/  does  not 
receive  all  the  articles  of  ordnance  property  invoiced  to  him,  or  in 
the  condition  as  stated  on  the  invoice,  he  will  receipt  for  only  the 
quantities  actually  received  and  according  to  their  condition,  the 
missing  property  or  discrepancy  being  covered  as  provided  for  in 
paragraph  163  of  these  regulations.     As  an  aid  in  determining  when 
any  loss  or  shortage  first  existed,  the  shipping  weight  of  any  box  in 
\vhich  a  shortage  develops  will  be  noted ;  also  the  weight  of  its  entire 
contents  as  received.     Similar  action  will  be  taken  in  case  of  a  box 
received  in  bajj.  or  suspicious  condition. 


125.  When  an  officer  is  acting  in  a  capacity  which  requires  him  to 
be  accountable  for  ordnance  property  and  he  is  relieved  from  this 
duty  prior  to  the  receipt  of  property  which  has  been  invoiced  to  him 
by  narrte,  his  successor  is  required  to  receive  and  receipt  for  such  prop- 
erty; but  in  order  to  avoid  the  complications  resulting  from  invoicing 
property  to  an  officer  by  name,  it  is  preferable  that  the  property  be 
invoiced  to  him  in  accordance  with  his  official  title,  or  capacity  in 
which  he  is  serving,  as  "Regimental  Ordnance  Officer,  Twenty-fourth 
Infantry,"  "The  Ordnance  Officer,  Fort  Niagara,  N.  Y." 

126.  Articles  of  personal  equipments  or  other  ordnance  property 
which  a  detached  soldier  carries  with  him,  or  for  which  he  may  ho 
indebted  to  the  United  States  at  the  time  of  his  transfer,  will  be  en- 
tcred  on  Form  No.  152  in  accordance  with  the  instructions  printed  on 
this  blank  form.     When  this  form  has  been  executed  to  contain  the 
receipt  of  the  soldier,  it  will  constitute  the  VOUCHER  under  which  the 
accountable  officer  will  drop  the  ari  ides  enumerated  thereon  from  his 
return,  or  secure  replacement  of  said  articles  by  turning  it  over  to  the 
post  or  other  supply  officer,  and  will  be  required  to  accompany  the 
return  from  which  the  articles  are  dropped.     When  this  form  has 
been  executed  by  the  officer  accountable  for  the  property  of  the 
organization  to  which  the  soldier  reports  upon  his  arrival  at  destina- 
tion, it  will  constitute  a  VOUCHER  to  his  return,  but  must  be  imme- 
diately forwarded  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  as  required  by  A.  R.  1535 
of  1913. 

When  enlisted  men  are  transferred  from  a  recruit  depot  in  detach- 
ments, with  an  officer  or  noncommissioned  officer  in  charge,  and  each 
man  is  equipped  identically,  and  none  of  them  are  indebted  for  other 
articles  of  ordnance  property,  a  description  of  all  of  the  articles  of 
ordnance  property  carried  by  them  will  be  entered  on  Form  No. 
152-D,  and  a  receipt  roll  will  be  made  on  Form  No.  153,  and  appro- 
priate vouchers  will  be  prepared  in  accordance  with  the  instructions 
printed  on  these  blank  forms.  The  signed  invoice  and  receipt  blank, 
together  with  a  signed  copy  of  the  receipt  roll,  will  constitute  a 
VOUCHER  to  the  return  of  the  issuing  officer  and  will  be  required  to 
accompany  it.  When  the  Form  No.  152-D  has  been  executed  by 
the  ordnance  officer  of  the  post,  or  the  designated  supply  officer  of 
the  organizations  to  which  the  men  were  transferred  or  assigned,  it 
constitutes  a  VOUCHER  to  his  return,  but  he  is  required  by  A.  R.  1535 
of  1913  to  immediately  forward  this  receipt  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance. 

127.  Badges,  medals,  and  other  insignia  pertaining  to  the  Ord- 
nance Department,  when  issued  to  officers  or  enlisted  men  entitled 
thereto,  will  be  covered  by  vouchers  made  on  Form  Np.  146A  in 
accordance  with  the  instructions  printed  on  this  form  and  dropped 
from  the  returns  of  the  accountable  officers  under  such  vouchers. 
To  lessen  the  work  of  the  ordnance  supply  officers,  these  issues  will 


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usually  be  made  by  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots  direct  to  the 
commanding  officers  of  organizations  to  which  the  officers  and  men 
belong,  but  whether  the  issue  is  so  made  or  by  ordnance  supply 
officers  Form  No.  146A,  when  executed  in  accordance  with  instruc- 
tions printed  upon  it,  is  a  proper  voucher  for  dropping  such  property 
from  their  returns. 

128.  When   articles   of  ordnance  property  are  transferred   to  a 
bureau  or  executive  department  by  the  commanding  officer  of  an 
ordnance  establishment,  vouchers  will  be  prepared  as  in  cases  of 
issues,  and   the  receipt  of  -the  officer  receiving  the  property  will 
constitute  a  VOUCHER  to  the  return  of  the  issuing  officer,  but  a  nota- 
tion will  be  made  on  this  voucher  that  settlement  for  the  property 
transferred  will  be  effected  through  the  Treasury  Department. 

129.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  transferred  by  the 
commanding  officer  of  an  ordnance-  establishment  to  a  contractor 
for  the  performance  of  a  contract  with  the  United  States,  vouchers 
will  be  prepared  as  in  the  case  of  issues,  and  the  receipt  of  the  con- 
tractor receiving  the  property  will  constitute  a  VOUCHER  to   the 
return  of  the  issuing  officer.     This  voucher  will  give  in  d  etail  the  value 
of  the  property,  and  the  issuing  officer  is  required  to  furnish  the  offi- 
cer charged  with  the  inspection  of  the  property  with  a  copy  of  the 
invoice  as  a  basis  for  deducting  the  value  of  the  property  from  any 
payments  due  under  the  contract. 

130.  When  National  Guard  organizations  are  mustered  out  of  the 
service   of  the   United    States,   accountability   for   the  serviceable 
ordnance  property  taken  by  such  organizations  into  the  State  service 
will  be  transferred  to  the  United  States  property  and  disbursing 
officers  for  the   States   or   Territories   to   which   the   organizations 
belong,  or  for  the  District  of  Columbia,  as  the  case  may  be.     No 
unserviceable  property  will  be  taken  into  the  State  service. 

131.  When  ordnance  property  is  transferred  to  places  without  the 
United  States,  the  cost  prices  of  the  articles  transferred  will  be 
*t»ted  on  the  in  voices. 

132.  When  cannon,  carriages,  limbers,  caissons,  instruments  for 
fire  control,   telescopic  sights,   machine   guns,   etc.,   having  serial 
numbers,  are  transferred,  a  copy  of  each  invoice  covering  such. trans- 
fer will  be  mailed  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  on  shipment  of  the  prop- 
erty.    When  ordnance  property  has  been  transferred  to  an  executive 
department  of  the  Government,  to  a  staff  department  of  the  Army, 
or  to  a  governor  of  a  State  or  Territory,  which  involves  a  settlement 
by  the  Treasury  Department  for  the  property  so  transferred,  a  copy 
of  each  receipt  for  the  property  so  transferred  is  also  required  to 
be  mailed  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


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133.  Ordnance  property  will  not  be  issued  on  memorandum  in- 
voice and  receipt  except  when  specifically  so  authorized  in  War 
Department  orders  and  instructions.     Some  of  the  cases  where  such 
issues  are  authorized  are  as  follows: 

(a)  By  a  coast  defense  ordnance  officer  to  ordnance  officers  of 
posts  within  the  district. 

(6)  By  armament  officers  to  post  or  coast  defense  ordnance  offi- 
cers, of  mechanic's  tools  which  may  be  required  in  the  alteration  and 
repair  of  artillery  material. 

(c)  By  post  and   other  ordnance  officers  to  organization  com- 
manders, articles  of  garrison  equipment  and  other  ordnance  stores 
(including  ammunition  for  target  practice)  not  included  in  equip- 
ment "C";  officers'  horse  equipment  to  certain  officers  as  provided 
in  A.  R.  1520  of  1913;  dispatch  cases  to  staff  officers;  and  arms  and 
pertaining  equipment  to  officers  at  certain,  h  cad  quarters. 

(d)  By  unit  ordnance  supply  officers  to  organization  commanders, 
of  equipment  "C"  enumerated  in  the  Unit  Equipment  Manuals. 

When  a  transfer  of  responsibility  for  ordnance  property  held  on  a 
memorandum  receipt  is  made,  the  outgoing  officer  will  bo  relieved 
from  further  responsibility  for  the  property  on  submitting  to  the 
accountable  officer  a  memorandum  receipt,  signed  by  his  successor, 
covering  all  the  property  so  transferred. 

ARTICLE  VII. 
PURCHASES  OF  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

See  A.  R.  693  of  1913. 

134.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  purchased  and  paid 
for  at  an  ordnance  establishment  they  are  reported  on  a  monthly 
abstract  of  purchases,  which  will  be  prepared  on  Forms  Nos.  219 
and  220,  the  former  being  the  outside  sheet  and  the  latter  the  inside 
sheet  of  the  abstract.     The  quantities  of  the  articles  described  on 
this  abstract  are  required  to  be  carried  to  the  proper  return,  less 
those  quantities  which  have  been  reported  thereon  as  having  been 
consumed  or  expended.     This  abstract  will  be  prepared  and  for- 
warded to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance,  in  accordance  with  the  instruc- 
tions printed  on  the  outside  sheet,  and  only  such  quantities  of  articles 
will  be  reported  as  having  been  expended  on  the  abstract  as  are 
authorized  by  the  printed  instructions.    The  abstract  of  purchases 
is  a  voucher  to  the  property  return,  but  is  transmitted  with  the 
monthly  money  account  of  the  disbursing  officer  who  paid  for  the 
articles  reported  thereon. 

135.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  purchased  under 
proper  authority  by  a  coast  defense  or  post  ordnance  officer,  pay- 
ment to  be  made  by  a  disbursing  officer  of  the  Ordnance  Depart- 


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ment,  the  purchasing  officer  is  required  to  prepare  an  abstract  of 
the  purchases  made  by  him  and  to  forward  it  to  the  Chief  of  Ord- 
nance through  the  disbursing  officer  making  the  payment. 

The  disbursing  officer,  on  receipt  of  this  abstract,  will  verify  the 
same  with  his  accounts  and  note  in  the  proper  columns  the  vouchers 
on  which  payment  was  made,  and  forward  the  abstract  with  his 
money  accounts. 

On  receipt  of  this  abstract  in  the  Ordnance  Office,  the  officer  who 
made  the  purchases  will  be  charged  with  the  accountability  for  the 
property  purchased ;  but  if  the  abstract  gives  the  name  of  some  other 
officer  than  the  purchasing  officer  as  the  accountable  officer,  then  in 
that  case  the  officer  named  will  be  charged  with  the  accountability. 

In  this  case  the  abstract  of  purchases  is  a  VOUCHER  to  the  return 
of  the  coast  defense  or  post  ordnance  officer,  but  is  not  required  to 
accompany  it. 

ARTICLE  VIIT. 

MANUFACTURE  OF  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

136.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  manufactured  at  an 
ordnance  establishment,  they  are  reported  on  the  monthly  report  of 
operations,  which  will  be  prepared  on  prescribed  forms  and  forwarded 
to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance,  as  prescribed  in  instructions. 

When  an  allotment  of  funds  is  made  for  the  manufacture  of  speci- 
fied quantities  of  articles,  the  report  of  operations  for  the  month  in 
which  the  articles  manufactured  are  reported  as  completed,  will,  in 
connection  with  the  preceding  reports  of  operations  under  this  allot- 
ment, show  the  manufacture  of  the  entire  quantities  of  the  articles 
authorized  by  the  allotment.  When  for  any  reason  these  reports  do 
not  show  the  completion  of  the  quantities  authorized,  an  explanation 
is  required  to  accompany  the  final  report  of  operations  on  which  the 
allotment  is  stated. 

The- property  manufactured  in  any  month  is  taken  up  on  the  prop- 
erty return,  supported  by  a  proper  voucher,  which  forms  part  of  the 
monthly  Report  of  Operations. 

137.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  procured  under  a 
contract  made  by,  or  under  an  order  given  by,  the  Chief  of  Ordnance, 
the  quantities  of  the  articles  so  procured  are  required  to  be  reported 
on  a  certificate  of  inspection  and  receipt,  which  will  be  prepared  on 
Form  No.  1066,  in  accordance  with  the  instructions  printed  thereon. 

When  a  contract  or  order  is  so  descriptive  of  articles  as  to  require 
that  they  be  accompanied  by  parts,  accessories,  implements,  equip- 
ments, etc.,  such  parts,  accessories,  etc.,  are  required  to  be  accounted 
for  separately  from  the  articles  to  which  they  pertain,  in  accordance 
with  the  standard  nomenclature,  and  in  such  cases  the  certificate  of 
inspection  and  receipt  is  required  to  be  accompanied  by  a  list  of  such 


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parts,  accessories,  etc.,  in  order  that  the  accountability  for  the 
articles  so  procured  may  be  properly  covered. 

When  property  is  received  by  an  officer  of  the  Ordnance  Depart- 
ment from  a  bureau  or  executive  department,  or  when  property  is 
purchased  which  involves  payment  by  the  Auditor  for  the  War 
Department,  a  certificate  of  inspection  and  receipt  will  be  prepared 
on  Form  No.  1066,  in  accordance  with  the  instructions  printed 
thereon. 

The  certificate  of  inspection  and  receipt  constitutes  a  VOUCHEE 
for  the  articles  described  thereon,  and  a  copy  of  each  is  required  to  be 
made  to  accompany  the  return  to  wlu'ch  it  pertains. 

ARTICLE  IX. 

SALES  OF  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

See  A.  R.  354,  611,  612,  617,  618,  679,  680,  681,  1520,  1521,  1526, 
and  1543,  of  1913,  the  regulations  governing  the  National  Guard 
of  the  United  States,  and  War  Department  regulations  of  May  27, 
1916,  governing  sales  to  rifle  clubs. 

138.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  sold  during  a  month 
they  are  reported  and  the  proceeds  of  sale  accounted  for  on  an 
abstract  of  funds  received  from  authorized  sales  of  public  property, 
prepared  on  War  Department  Form  No.  322,  and  forwarded  to  the 
Chief  of  Ordnance,  in  accordance  with  the  instructions  printed  on  the 
outside  sheet.  Sales  made  during  a  month  must  be  reported  on  an 
abstract  for  that  month.  The  abstract  is  a  VOUCHER  to  the  property 
return  for  the  period  in  which  the  sale  was  made,  but  is  not  required 
to  accompany  it. 

130.  When  sales  of  serviceable  ordnance  property  are  made,  a 
certificate  will  be  required  from  the  purchaser,  which  will  be  prepared 
on  Form  No.  147,  in  accordance  with  the  instructions  printed  on  the 
outside  of  this  form,  in  order  that  this  certificate  may  show  that  t!io 
sale  was  made  as  provided  for  by  law  and  regulations.  This  certificate 
will  be  filed  by  the  selling  officer. 

140.  When  sales  of  condemned  ordnance  stores  are  made  by  a 
commanding  officer  of  an  arsenal  or  ordnance  depot  they  will  be  mado 
as  provided  for  in  orders  issued  by  the  Chief  of  Ordnance.     When 
sales  of  like  property  are  made  by  post,  regimental,  or  other  ordnance 
officers  the  sales  will  be  made  in  accordance  with  special  instruction-} 
given  by  the  department  or  corps  commander,  or  higher  authority, 
under  whose  direction  the  property  was  condemned.     The  advertise- 
ment covering  the  sale  of  the  property  will  be  prepared  on  Fonn  No. 
561,  in  accordance  with  the  instructions  printed  thereon. 

141.  The  proceeds  of  the  sales  of  ordnance  property  are  required 
to  be  deposited  by  the  officer  who  will  account  for  the  funds,  within 


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thirty  days  after  their  receipt,  in  an  authorized  United  States  deposi- 
tary to  the  credit  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  United  States  on  account  of 
"  Sales  of  Ordnance  Stores,"  and  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  will  be  notified 
of  the  deposit  in  accordance  with  the  method  prescribed  in  A.  R.  612. 
When  there  are  expenses  in  connection  with  the  sale,  a  sufficient 
amount  of  the  proceeds  thereof  may  be  retained  to  make  the  appro- 
priate disbursements  to  cover  these  expenses. 

142.  The  sale  of  serviceable  ordnance  property  by  the  Ordnance 
Department  to  individual  members  of  the  National  Guard  is  not 
authorized. 

ARTICLE  X. 

ACCUMULATIONS,  RECOVERIES,  ETC.,  OF  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

See  A.  R.  693  of  1913. 

143.  When  ordnance  property,  such  as  scrap  and  other  waste 
products  arising  from  manufacturing  operations,  accumulates  at  an 
arsenal  or  other  ordnance  establishment,  CERTIFICATES  will  be  prer 
pared  from  time  to  time  and  signed  by  the  commanding  officer 
giving  the  quantities  of  the  articles  which  have  accumulated  and 
relating  the  circumstances  under  which  the  accumulation  occurred. 
This  certificate  constitutes  a  VOUCHER  to  the  return  covering  the 
period  in  which  the  accumulation  occurred,  and  is  required  to  accom- 
pany it. 

144.  When  ordnance  property  is  received  by  an  officer  or  other 
custodian  of  ordnance  property,  which  is  not  covered  by  an  invoice 
and  not  previously  accounted  for,  a  CERTIFICATE  will  be  prepared  and 
signed  by  the  officer,  giving  the  quantities  of  the  articles  so  received 
and  stating  the  circumstances  of  their  receipt;  if  an  invoice  of  the 
property  so  received  should  later  be  furnished,  it  will  be  substituted 
for  the  certificate.     This  certificate  constitutes  a  voucher  to  the 
return  covering  the  period  in  which  the  property  was  received,  and, 
in  the  absence  of  the  invoice,  is  required  to  accompany  it. 

145.  When,  on  the  taking  of  an  inventory,  or  at  any  other  time 
when  it  is  apparent  to  the  responsible  officer,  property  is  found  on 
hand  hi  excess  of  that  which  is  carried  on  the  returns,  a  CERTIFICATE 
will  be  prepared  and  signed  by  the  responsible  officer  stating  the 
quantities  of  the  surplus  property  and  relating  the  circumstances 
which  gave  rise  to  the  taking  up  of  the  property.     This  certificate 
constitutes  a  voucher  to  the  return  covering  the  period  in  which  the 
property  was  found  and  is  required  to  accompany  it. 

146.  When  ordnance  property  which  has  been  lost,  abandoned, 
etc.,  has  been  recovered  by  an  officer,  or  other  custodian  of  ordnance 
property,  he  is  required,  if  the  name  of  the  responsible  officer  can 
be  ascertained,  to  turn  the  property  over  to  him.     If  the  property 
can  not  be  thus  disposed  of,  the  officer  finding  the  property  is  re- 


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quired  to  prepare  a  CERTIFICATE  giving  the  quantities  of  the  articles 
found  or  recovered  by  him  and  relating  the  circumstances  under 
which  the  finding  or  recovery  was  made.  This  certificate  constitutes 
a  voucher  to  the  return  covering  the  period  in.  which  the  property  was 
found  or  recovered  and  is  required  to  accompany  it. 

When  ordnance  property  which  has  been  lost  or  abandoned,  etc., 
has  been  recovered  by  an  officer,  an  enlisted  man,  or  a  civilian  em- 
ployee, who  is  not  accountable  for  ordnance  property,  ho  will  turn 
over  the  property  to  an  officer  who  is  accountable  for  such  property 
and  who  is  required  to  account  for  it  as  provided  for  in  this  para- 
graph. 

It  is  important  when  ordnance  property  is  found  that  tho  circum- 
stances in  connection  with  the  recovery  shall  be  fully  related  in  order 
that  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  may,  in  examining  and  settling  tho  prop- 
erty returns,  be  in  a  position  to  give  credit  to  tho  proper  officer  for 
tho  property  so  found  or  recovered.  For  every  article  of  ordnance 
property  found  or  recovered  there  must  be  undor  thoso  regulations 
a  responsible  and  an  accountable  officer,  and  therefore  it  is  important 
that  all  circumstances  in  connection  with  tho  caso  bo  fully  related; 
otherwise  an  officer  may  be  charged  with  the  loss  of  property  which 
is  still  in  the  possession  of  tho  United  States. 

147.  Whon  military  stores  similar  to  thoso  furnished  by  tho  Ord- 
nance Department  have  been  captured  from  an  enemy,  or  found 
upon  being  abandoned  by  him,  tho  officer  securing  the  property  will 
turn  it  over  to  tho  chief  ordnance  officer  of  tho  Army,  Army  corps, 
or  division,  or  to  the  ordnance  officer  of  the  regiment,  or  detachment, 
operating  against  the  enemy.     Tho  officer  turning  ovor  tho  property 
will  furnish  tho  receiving  officer  a  brief  report  of  tho  capture  or  find- 
ing, together  with  a  list  of  the  stores,  in  ordor  thnt  tho  circumstances 
in  connection  with  the  capture  or  finding  may  bo  made  a  part  of  tho 
record  of  the   property  so   captured   or  found.     This   property  is 
required  to  bo  accounted  for,  and  the  report  and  list  of  stores  will 
constitute  a  voucher  requiring  the  receiving  officer  to  account  for 
the  property  and  is  required  to"  accompany  tho  return  to  which  it 
pertains.     The  property  so  captured  or  found  will  be  turned  in  to 
the  nearest  ordnance  depot  unless  it  can  be  used  in  operation  against 

the  enemy. 

ARTICLE  XI. 

EXPENDITURE  OF  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

See  A.  R.  314,  350,  697,  699,  1528,  1529,  1530,  and  1531  of  1913. 

148.  Certain  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  consumed  or  ex- 
pended  in  the  military   service   in   tho  care   and   preservation   of 
ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  and  in  the  instruction  of  troops.     In 
addition,  ammunition  may  be  expended  in  action,  in  defense  of  life 


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or  public  property,  in  carrying  out  the  prescribed  duties  of  sentinels, 
and  for  the  authorized  salutes.  Expendable  articles  are  those  which 
are  authorized  to  be  dropped  from  a  return  on  a  certificate  or  state- 
ment of  the  responsible  officer  that  they  have  been  expended  or  con- 
sumod  for  an  authorized  purpose  without  requiring  any  additional 
voucher  to  substantiate  the  transaction.  Ordinarily  a  largo  quantity 
of  ordnance  property  is  expendable  in  the  same  sense  that  it  is  issued 
to  tho  service  to  be  expended  for  some  military  purpose,  but  not  all  the 
articles  .of  such  ordnance  property  can  be  dropped  from  returns  on 
certificates  or  statements  of  the  responsible  officers. 

149.  The  Ordnance  Pamphlet     No.   1970  specifies  money  allow- 
ances of  expendable  materials  for  cleaning,  repairing,  and  preserving 
articles  of  ordnance  property,  and  tho  various  ordnance  price  lists 
indicate  those  articles  which  may  be  dropped  from  tho  returns  of  the 
accountable  officers  on  certificates  that  the  articles  have  been  or 
will  be  actually  consumed  or  expended  for  tho  purpose  authorized, 
or  that  they  have  been  worn  out  in  the  military  service.     The  more 
expensive  articles,  such  as  spare  parts  for  cannon,  etc.,  which  are 
issued  to  the  service  for  the  care  and  preservation  of  ordnance  prop- 
erty, can  not  bo  dropped  from  the  returns  on  certificates  that  they 
havo  boon  thus  expended,  but  the  corresponding  unserviceable  arti- 
cles must  be  placed  before  an  inspector,  as  provided  for  in  the  Army 
Regulations,  or  otherwise  accounted  for. 

150.  The  allowances  of  small-arms  ammunition  which  may  bo  ex- 
pended in  target  practice,  preliminary  instruction  of  the  soldier, 
military  exercises,  and  hunting,  are  published  annually  in  general 
orders  from  the  War  Department.     The  allowances  of  ammunition 
for  target  practice  for  Field  Artillery  and  Coast  Artillery  troops  are 
also  published  annually  in  orders  issued  by  the  War  Department. 
These  allowances  arc  based  on  appropriations  made  by  Congress  for 
the  purpose. 

151.  When   an  officer  inadvertently  exceeds  the  allowance  pre- 
scribed in  the  orders  for  the  organization  commanded  by  him,  the 
excess  amount  will  be  charged  agaiikst  the  allowance  of  this  organiza- 
tion for  the  next  year;  but  if  the  allowance  was  exceeded  through 
neglect,  he  will  be  charged  with  the  value  of  the  excess  ammunition 
so  expended. 

152.  The  allowances  of  field-artillery  and  small-arms  ammunition 
for  the  instruction  of  students  at  educational  institutions  and  at 
soldiers'  and  sailors'  orphans'  homes  are  published  annually  in  orders 
issued  by  the  War  Department.     These  allowances  are  based  on  ap- 
propriations or  authorizations  made  by  Congress  for  the  purpose. 

1 53.  There  are  no  prescribed  allowances  of  field-artillery  and  small- 
arms  ammunition  for  the  troops  of  the  National  Guard;  but  when 
the  National  Guard  engages  in  target  practice  at  Coast  Artillery  posts, 


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or  participates  in  maneuvers  with  the  Regular  Army,  the  allowances 
of  scacoast-artillery  ammunition,  or  of  field-artillery  and  small-arms 
blank  ammunition  arc  published  in  orders  from  the  War  Department. 

154.  Except  as  stated  in  paragraphs  155  and  156  of  these  regula- 
tions, all  expendable  articles  of  ordnance  property,  including  ammu- 
nition, expended  for  an  authorized  purpose  will  be  reported  on  the 
form  No.  601 ,  A.  G.  O.,  which,  when  executed  in  accordance  with  the 
instructions  printed  thereon,  constitutes  a  voucher  to  the  return  of 
the  accountable  officer,  and  is  required  to  accompany  the  return 
when  forwarded  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance.     This  form  will  not  be 
used  in  obtaining  expendable  articles,  spare  parts  and  preservatives 
for  the  maintenance  of  an  equipment  "C,'r  but  the  Form  No.  604 
will  be  used  for  such  purpose. 

This  voucher  will  cover  only  such  quantities  of  the  various  articles 
as  have  been  actually  consumed  or  expended  for  authorized  purposes 
during  the  period  of  accountability.  It  is  not,  therefore,  intended 
to  cover  the  dropping  of  expendable  articles  which  have  been  lost  or 
stolen.  The  responsible  .officer  will  acquaint  himself  with  the  facts 
as  to  the  expenditures  or  consumption  before  signing  the  certificate 
on  the  voucher. 

155.  Expendable  articles,  spare  parts,  and  preservatives  required 
for  the  maintenance  of  an  equipment  "C"  will  be  obtained  by  unit 
supply  officers  under  vouchers  made  on  the  Form  No.  604,  A.  G.  O. 
and  this  form,  when  executed  in  accordance  with  the  instructions 
printed  thereon,  constitutes  the  voucher  under  which  the  accountable 
officer  will  drop  the  material  and  supplies  enumerated  thereon  from 
his  return.     This  form  (No.  604,  A.  G.  O.)  will  not  be  used  to  cover 
articles  of  ordnance  property  issued  or  expended  for  the  maintenance 
of  the  seacoast  armament,  but  the  Form  No.  601,  A.  G.  O.,  will  be 
used  for  such  puq^oso. 

156.  (a)  At  arsenals  and  other  ordnance  establishments  expendable 
articles  are  divided  into  two  classes,  namely,  those  that  are  consumed 
by  the  use  to  which  they  are  put,  as  chemicals,  fuel,  forage,  oils, 
paifrtS-,  etc.,  and  those  converted  by  manufacture  or  similar  operations 
into  othrr  articles  which  must  be  accounted  for.     An  article  may  come 
under  both  classes,  depending  upon  the  use  to  which  it  is  put.     When 
an  oil  is  applied  directly  to  wood  for  decorative  or  preservative  pur- 

s  it  belongs  to  the  first  class,  but  when  it  is  used  in  the  manu- 
facture of  paints  it  belongs  to  the  second  class.  Articles  of  the  first 
class  are  known  as  "supplies"  and  those  or  the  second  class  us  "ma- 
terials." The  word  "materials"  is  a  relative  term,  and  a  finished 
manufactured  article  may  itself  be  a  "material  '  entering  into  the 
manufacture  of  a  more  complex  article,  as  when  a  luxe  enters  into 
the  manufacture  of  a  projectile.  When  articles  of  either  class  are 
•  consumed  or  expended  for  an  authorized  purpose  they  will  be  dropped 


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directly  on  the  return  and  the  purpose  of  the  expenditure  will  be 
stated  upon  the  register  of  vouchers  in  the  column  for  the  names  of 
the  receiving  and  issuing  officers,  in  the  manner  described  below. 

(/>)  Articles  of  the  first-named  class  will  be  dropped  at  the  end  of 
each  month,  the  purpose  being  stated  in  the  language  of  the  allot- 
ment which  authorized  the  procurement  of  the  supplies  or  their 
replacement;  for  example,  the  purpose  for  which  forage  is  expended 
in  any  month  will  be  indicated  in  the  language  of  the  allotment  which 
authorized  its  procurement,  e.  g.,  "Maintenance  of  transportation 

during  month  of "  etc.  Expenditures  under  each  allotment 

will  be  stated  separately. 

(c)  In  the  case  of  coal,  oil,  waste,  etc.,  which  are  consumed  during 
manufacturing  operations  as  a  part  of  the  necessary  shop  expenses, 
they  will  be  dropped  on  the  return  at  the  end  of  each  month,  the 
purpose  being  stated  on  the  register  of  vouchers  as  "Shop  expenses 

during  the  month  of "  These  materials,  while  used  during 

manufacturing  operations,  are,  nevertheless,  not  converted  by  such 
operations  into  other  articles,  and  this  method  of  accounting  for  them 
is,  therefore,  authorized. 

(cZ)  Materials  of  the  second  class  will  be  dropped  as  expended  during 
the  progress  of  manufacture  as  the  articles  fabricated  out  of  the  mate- 
rial so  expended  have  been  accounted  for;  for  example,  if  an  allot- 
ment is  made  an  ordnance  establishment  for  the  manufacture  of  10 
3-inch  R.  F.  field  guns,  the  accounting  for  one  of  these  £uns  will 
authorize  the  accountable  officer  to  drop  the  corresponding  material 
used  in  its  manufacture,  and  the  purpose  of  the  expenditure  would 
be  stated  on  the  register  of  vouchers  somewhat,  as.f ollows :  "  Expended 

in  the  manufacture  of  one  3-inch  R.  F.  field  gun  (O.  O.  _ ),  which 

is  taken  up  on  the  return  of  December  31,  1917,  under  receipt  No. 
753." 

(e)  Instead  of  following  the  method  outlined  above  for  dropping 
property  expended  during  manufacturing  operations,  the  account- 
able officer  may  find  it  necessary,  because  of  the  intervention  of  an 
accounting  period,  to  drop  property  as  expended,  although  the 
articles  into  which  it  is  being  converted  are  not  finished  and  can 
not  be  so  accounted  for.  This  method  is  authorized,  provided  the 
material  in  a  partly  finished  condition  be  taken  up  on  the  property 
return,  under  proper  heading,  at  the  time  the  raw  material  is  dropped. 
In  such  case  the  entry  made  on  the  register  of  vouchers  to  cover  the 
transaction  would  read  somewhat  as  follows:  "Expended  in  the 
manufacture  of  ten  3-inch  R.  F.  field  guns,  which  are  taken  up 
under  receipt  No.  100  on  the  register  of  vouchers,  and  accounted 
for  on  the  return  as  3-inch  R.  F.  field  guns  in  partly  finished  con- 
dition." In  this  case  the  receipt  No.  100  under  which  the  property 
is  taken  up  on  the  return  as  partly  finished  would  consist  of  an 


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entry  on  the  register  of  vouchers  somewhat  as  follows:  "Articles 

partly  completed  from  material  dropped  on  issue  No "     If 

it  is  found  expedient  to  drop  more  property  from  n  subsequent 
return  as  expended  in  tho  manufacture  of  these  guns,  although  none 
of  them  are  at  the  time  completed,  then  the  entry  made  on  the 
register  of  vouchers  to  cover  the  additional  articles  expended  would 
bo  made  to  read  as  follows:  "Expended  in  the  manufacture  of  ten 
3-inch  R.  F.  field  guns,  which  arc  now  accounted  for  on  the  return, 
in  column  4,  on  page  20,  as  3-inch  It.  F.  field  .guns,  in  partly  finished 
condition."  Later  on,  when  any  of  these  guns  arc  completed  and 
so  accounted  for  on  the  return,  a  corresponding  number  of  tho  guns 
which  have  been  accounted  for  as  partly  finished  will  be  dropped 
as  expended,  and  the  entry  made  on  the  register  of  vouchers  to 
cover  the  transaction  would  read  somewhat  as  follows,  for  instance, 
in  case  two  of  the  guns  were  completed:  "Expended  in  the  manu- 
facture of  two  3-inch  R.  F.  field  guns,  which  arc  taken  up  on  the 
return  of  June  30,  1917,  under  receipt  No.  900."  In  tho  cose  of 
manufacture  involving  large  numbers  of  component  parts,  as,  for 
instance,  small  anus,  the  partially  completed  parts  need  not  be 
entered  separately,  but  the  total  number  of  all  such  parts  may  be 
taken  up  under  one  heading,  as,  for  example,  "Partly  finished  com- 
ponents of  U.  S.  magazine  rifle." 

(/)  When  an  allotment  is  revoked,  stopping  any  or  all  work  under 
it,  the  material  expended  up  to  the  time  of  the  revocation  and  not 
previously  dropped  will  be  dropped  on  the  abstract  of  transfers, 
which  must  show  the  taking  up  of  the  corresponding  material  in  a 
partial  state  of  completion  under  tho  proper  headings. 

Qy)  When  material  is  expended  in  work  authorized  by  a  contingent 
allotment  it  will  be  dropped  at  the  end  of  each  month  for  all  work 
reported  completed  under  that  allotment.  The  separate  purpose 
need  not  be  stated  in  this  case;  the  general  statement  that  the  ex- 
penditures were  made  for  the  completion  of  work  authorized  by  a 
contingent  allotment  will  bo  sufficient. 

(7t)  When  material  is  expended  in  tho  manufacture  of  tools,  fix- 
tures, etc.,  authorized  indirectly  by  allotments  for  tho  manufacture 
of  .articles  and  charged  as  shop  expenses,  such  tools,  fixtures,  etc., 
must  be  accounted  for.  The  record  showing  the  dropping  of  the 
property  and  the  taking  up  of  the  corresponding  tools,  etc.,  will  be 
made  on  the  abstract  of  transfers.  But  when  parts  of  machines  or 
tools  which  constitute  parts  of  machines  are  thus  manufactured  they 
need  not  be  taken  up  on  the  return,  provided  a  notation  is  made  on 
the  abstract  of  transfers  immediately  under  the  transaction  to  the 
effect  that  such  tools  or  parts  of  machines  are  intended  to  replace 
corresponding  parts  heretofore  accounted  for  and  rendered  unserv- 
iceable in  service. 
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(t)  Under  these  instructions  an  officer  is  held  to  accountability  for 
all  material  used  during  conversion  in  manufacturing  operations 
until  he  has  accounted  for  the  articles  fully  or  partially  converted. 

Q")  When  ammunition  is  expended  at  an  ordnance  establishment, 
the  purpose  will  be  stated  in  the  proper  column  on  the  register  of 
vouchers.  When  the  object  of  any  firings  or  test  has  not  been 
accomplished  within  a  semiannual  period  the  ammunition  which  was 
actually  expended  during  that  period  will,  nevertheless,  be  dropped 
from  the  return  in  order  that  the  quantities  of  ammunition  to  be 
accounted  for  and  those  on  hand  may  agree. 

(Jc)  The  instructions  contained  in  this  paragraph  will  not  be  con- 
strued as  superseding  those  printed  on  the  abstract  of  purchases 
authorizing  the  reporting  of  certain  expenditures  on  this,  abstract. 

157.  Expenditures  of  ammunition  made  by  rifle  clubs  and  schools 
to  which  rifles  and  ammunition  have  been  issued  under  the  provi- 
sions of  the  act  of  Congress  approved  April  27,  1914,  are  reported 
on  Form  No.   19B,  certificate  of  expenditures  •  of  ammunition  by 
rifle  clubs  and  schools,  which,  when  execute^  in  accordance  with  the 
instructions  printed  thereof,  constitutes  a  VOUCHER  to  the  return  of 
the  club  or  school,  as  the  case  may  be. 

More  specific  instructions  regarding  the  expenditure  of  ammunition 
by  rifle  clubs  and  schools  is  given  in  special  regulations  governing  the 
issue  of  rifles  and  ammunition  to  rifle  clubs  and  schools,  published  by 
the  War  Department. 

158.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  no  longer  issued  for 
the  purpose  for  which  they  were  originally  intended  at  an  arsenal 
or  other  ordnance  establishment,  and  it  is  desired  to  utilize  them 
in  conducting  manufacturing  operations,  commanding  officers  are 
required  to  submit  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  a  list  giving  the  quan- 
tities and  kinds  of  the  property,  accompanied  by  a  staiement  show- 
ing the  reason  for  the  desired  disposition   of  the  property.     The 
approval  of  this  recommendation  will  authorize  the  commanding 
Officer  to  utilize  the  property  for  the  purpose  named.     In  the  event 
of  the  approval  of  the  recommendation,  a  certificate  will  be  prepared 
and  signed  by  the  commanding  officer  giving  the  quantities  of  the 
different  articles  and  the  specific  manufacturing  operations  in  which 
they  are  to  be  used.     When  these  articles  can  not  bt  used  directly 
in  their  original  condition,  the  certificate  will  give  the  quantities  of 
scrap  into  which  they  were  converted,  or  which  they  form,  for  use 
in    conducting    manufacturing    operations.     This    certificate    is    a 
VOUCILER  to  the  return  of  the  accountable  officer,  requiring  him 
to  account  for  the  resulting  scrap  and  authorizing  him  to  drop  the 
corresponding  articles  which  have  been  broken  up  or  destroyed,  and 
will  accompany  the  return  to  which  it  pertains. 


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ARTICLE  XIT. 
LOSS,  DAMAGE,  OR  DESTRUCTION  OF  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

See  A.  R.  116,  678,  §79,  680,  682,  683,  684,  685,  686,  687,  688,  689, 
690,  691,  692,  710,  711,  712,  713,  714,  715,  716,  717,  718,  719,  720, 
721,  722,  723,  724,  725,  906,  1141,  and  1535  of  1913,  and  the  regula- 
tions governing  the  National  Guard  of  the  United  States. 

159.  When  ordnance  property  has  been  lost,  damaged,  or  destroyed, 
the  law  and  the  Army  Regulations  require  that  the  value  thereof 
shall  bo  charged  against  the  responsible  officer,  unless  he  shows  to 
the  satisfaction  of  the  Secretary  of  War  by  his  own  affidavit,  or  by 
his  certificate  supported  by  one  or  more  affidavits,  that  the  loss, 
damage,  or  destruction  was  occasioned  by  unavoidable  causes  and 
without  fault  or  neglect  on  his  part. 

160.  When  ordnance  property  has  been  lost,  damaged,  or  destroyed 
under  the  following  circumstances,  a  surveying  officer  will  be  ap- 
pointed to  fix  the  responsibility  in  each  case: 

(1)  When  property  has  been  lost  or  damaged  in  transit. 

(2)  When  property  has  been  lost  or  damaged  on  transfer  from 
one  officer  to  another. 

(3)  When  property  has  been  damaged  by  otner  than  fair  wear  and 
tear  in  the  service. 

(4)  When  property  has  been  ordered  abandoned. 

(5)  When  property  has  been  lost  by  a  deserter. 

(6)  When  it  is  desired  to  charge  an  enlisted  man  for  loss,  damage, 
or  destruction  of  property  and  he  requests  that  this  action  be  taken. 

The  object  of  having  a  surveying  officer  act  in  cases  of  loss  or 
destruction  of  ordnance  property  is  to  fix  the  responsibility  between 
the  two  or  more  parties  concerned  in  the  case.  A  report  of  survey 
must  have  attached  to  it  the  evidence  required  by  the  preceding 
paragraph  of  these  regulations. 

Reports  of  surveying  officers  of  the  Army  are  prepared  on  Form 
No,  196,  A.  G.  O. 

161.  A  report  of  survey,  or  the  affidavits  and  certificates  referred 
to  in  paragraph  159,  are  required  to  accompany  the  ordnance  prop- 
erty return  to  which  they  relate,  except  as  provided  for  in  A.  R.  698 
and  713,  and  the  appropriate  entries  will  be  made  by  the  accountable 
officer  on  the  return  based  on  the  acceptance  of  *this  evidence  as  a 
voucher  for  the  purpose.    H  this  evidence  is  not  accepted  by  the 
Secretary  of  War,  the  money  value  of  the  property  lost,  damaged, 
or  destroyed  will  be  charged  against  the  responsible  officer. 

162.  When  ordnance  property  has  been  lost  or  destroyed,  it  has 
been  held  that  the  money  value  thereof  to  the  United  States  is  the 
cost  of  replacing  this  property,  and  this  value  will  be  obtained  from 
the  ordnance  price  lists  publishing  the  cost  prices  of  the  articles 


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lost  or  destroyed.  When  ordnance  property  has  been  damaged,  the 
amount  of  the  damage  is  measured  by  the  cost  price  of  the  parts 
.or  components  which  have  been  damaged,  or  the  actual  cost  of 
the  work  required  to  place  the  property  in  a  serviceable  condition. 
When  a  part  or  component  of  an  article  has  been  lost  or  destroyed 
and  it  is  not  issued  to  the  service,  the  money  value  thereof  is  the 
cost  price  of  the  article  to  which  the  part  or  component  pertains. 
But  when  obsolete  property  has  been  lost,  destroyed,  or  damaged, 
the  money  value  thereof  will  be  fixed  at  30  per  cent  of  the  published 
cost  prices  of  the  articles  or  parts,  since  this  obsolete  property  is  not 
required  to  be  replaced. 

However,  when  ordnance  property  shipped  to  the  Philippine 
Islands  by  commercial  lines  has  been  lost  or  damaged  in  transit, 
the  cost  price  of  the  articles,  plus  the  cost  of  transportation,  will  J>e 
considered  the  money  value  thereof. 

163.  When  the  property  described  on  an  invoice  has  not  all  been 
received  and  the  receiving  quartermaster  has  not  discovered  the 
deficiency,  the  receiving  officer  will,  as  early  as  practicable,  report 
the  deficiency  to  the  invoicing  officer,  requesting  that  the  invoice  be 
changed  to  correspond  with  the  property  actually  received,  and  in 
case  ho  is  unable  to  grant  the  request  to  furnish  the  appropriate 
evidence  for  the  action  of  a  surveying  officer. 

When  a  surveying  officer  acts  in  cases  of  deficiency,  the  receiving 
officer  will  accomplish  the  receipt  to  show  the  actual  quantities 
received  and  forward  the  receipt  thus  accomplished  and  hi  duplicate 
to  the  invoicing  officer,  accompanied  by  two  copies  of  the  report  of 
survey  to  account  for  the  missing  property. 

When  the  property  described  on  an  invoice  is  damaged  en  route  or 
has  not  ell  been  received  and  the  carrier  or  other  responsible  party 
pays  or  agrees  to  pay  for  the  damage  or  deficiency,  the  receiving 
officer  will  accomplish  the  receipt  to  show  the  damage  or  the  actual 
quantity  received  and  will  forward  the  receipt  thus  accomplished  in 
duplicate  to  the  invoicing  officer,  accompanied  by  two  copiesf  of  the 
correspondence  indicating  the  method  of  payment  followed,  or  that 
will  be  followed,  by  the  carrier  or  other  responsible  party. 

TJhese  receipts  and  report  of  survey,  or  copies  of  correspondence, 
will  be  substituted  by  the  issuing  officer  for  the  invoice  on  which 
the  articles  shipped  were  originally  dropped  from  the  return. 

When  the  property  described  on  an  invoice  has  been  damaged  en 
route  or  has  not  all  been  received,  the  receiving  officer  will  take  up 
on  the  return  only  the  actual  quantities  received,  and  that  damaged 
will  be  taken  up  as  unserviceable;  he.  will  attach  to  each  copy  of  the 
invoice  one  copy  of  the  report  of  survey  on  the  damaged  or  missing 
property,  or  a  copy  of  the  correspondence  showing  the  payment  or 


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the  agreement  to  make  payment  by  a  carrier  or  other  responsible 
party,  as  a  complete  voucherfor  the  purpose. 

When  the  property  described  on  an  invoice  has  not  been  received 
within  a  reasonable  time,  it  is  the  duty  of  the  receiving  quartermaster 
to  correspond  with  the  shipping  quartermaster  with  a  view  to  tracing 
the  property.  If  the  property  can  not  be  located,  the  receiving  quar- 
termaster will  apply  for  a  surveying  officer  (unless  the  carrier  volun- 
tarily assumes  liability  for  the  loss),  and  the  method  of  accounting 
outlined  in  this  paragraph  in  case  of  a  deficiency  will  be  followed  in 
the  case  of  a  total  loss. 

The  receiving  officer  is  required  to  prepare  such  additional  copies 
of  each  report  of  survey  as  may  be  necessary  to  provide  for  the 
accounting  required  by  this  paragraph. 

164.  When  an  approved  report  of  survey  holds 'a  common  carrier 
or  a  person  not  in  the  military  service  responsible  for  loss  of  or  damage 
to  ordn?nce  property,  and  this  report  is  submitted  as  a  voucher  by 
the  commanding  officer  of  an  arsenal  or  other  ordnance  establishment, 
with  his  ordnance  property  return,  it  is  required  that  a  notation  shall 
be  attached  to  the  report  showing  the  steps  taken  to  collect  the  value 
of-  the  loss  or  damage. 

165.  When  ordnance  property  has  been  ordered  abandoned  or 
destroyed  during  a  campaign  and  the  order  does  not  state  the  quan- 
tities and  kinds  covered  by  it,  a  surveying  officer  is  appointed  to  make 
an  inventory  of  the  property.    The  approved  report  of  survey, 
accompanied  by  a  certified  copy  of  the  order  directing  the  abandon- 
ment or  destruction  of  the  property,  will  constitute  a  VOUCHEE  under 
which  the-  accountable  officer  will  drop  the  articles  from  his  return,  or 
secure  replacement  thereof  by  turning  it  over  to  the  post  or  other 
supply  officer. 

When  it  is  not  practicable  to  appoint  a  surveying  officer,  an  affida- 
vit, will  be  submitted  by  the  responsible  officer,  giving  the  quantities 
and  kinds  of  the  articles  abandoned  or  destroyed,  together  with  a 
statement  of  the  circumstances  in  connection  with  the  abandonment 
or  destruction,  accompanied  by  a  certified  copy  of  the  order  author- 
izing the  abandonment  or  destruction.  If  the  order  directing  the 
abandonment  or  destruction  of  the  property  was  a  verbal  one,  or  a 
copy  of  the  written  order  can  not  be  procured,  the  affidavit  of  the 
responsible  officer  will  so  state. 

As  large  quantities  of  ordnance  property  are  sometimes  abandoned 
or  destroyed,  the  examination  of  the  evidence  furnished  by  officers 
for  this  class  of  losses  is  very  rigid.  No  such  losses  are  passed  to.  the 
credit  of  any  officer  unless  the  evidence  he  produces  is  perfectly 
satisfactory. 

166.  When  ordnance  property  has  been  abandoned  for  want  of 
transportation,  the  responsible  officer  is  required  to  furnish  to  the 


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accountable  officer  the  affidavit  of  the  quartermaster  whose  duty  it 
was  to  provide  transportation  that  he  neither  had  nor  could  obtain 
any,  which  will  be  corroborated  by  the  certificate  of  the  commanding 
officer  of  the  regiment,  battalion,  or  detachment  to  which  the  officer 
belongs.  This  affidavit  and  certificate  will  constitute  a  VOUCHES 
under  which  the  accountable  officer  will  drop  the  articles  from  his 
return  or  secure  replacement  thereof  by  turning  it  over  to  the  post 
or  other  supply  officer. 

167.  When  ordnance  property  has  been  lost  in  an  engagement,  the 
responsible  officer  will  furnish  the  accountable  officer  with  an  affida- 
vit giving  the  date,  place,  and  the  circumstances  under  which  the 
loss  occurred.     When  the  lo^s  did  not  como  under  the  observation  of 
the  responsible  officer,  an  affidavit  to  the  same  effect  will  be  fur- 
nished by  an  officer  or  noncommissioned  officer  cognizant  of  the  facts. 
This  affidavit  will  constitute  a  VOUCHER  under  which  the  accountable 
officer  will  drop  the  articles  from  his  return  or  secure  replacement 
thereof  by N  the  post  or  other  supply  .officer. 

168.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  have  been  lost,  stolen, 
damaged,  or  expended  without  authority,  or  lost  or  abandoned  in  the 
face  of  the  enemy  or  on  the  march,  or. otherwise  improperly  disposed 
of  by  enlisted  men,  they  will  be  charged  on  the  muster  and  pay  rolls 
with"  the  money  value  of  this  property. 

When  ordnance  property  has  been  lost,  abandoned,  stolen,  dam- 
aged, etc.,  under  the  conditions  related  in  this  paragraph,  and  the 
responsible  officer  fails  to  have  the  charges  entered  on  the  muster 
and  pay  rolls  against  the  enlisted  men,  he  will  be  held  pecuniarily 
responsible  for  the  value  of  the  property.  • 

Charges  will  not,  however,  be  entered  on  the  muster  and  pay  rolls 
against  an  enlisted  man  except  when  the  proof  is  conclusive,  and 
never  without  a  survey,  if  he  demands  it;  but  it  is  considered  that 
when  property  has  been  issued  or  entrusted  to  an  enlisted  man,  and 
it  is  so  shown,  the  proof  is  conclusive  of  his  responsibility  for  the 
same,  and  in  the  event  of  any  such  articles  of  property  being  lost, 
damaged  or  destroyed,  etc.,  the  burden  of  proof  is  on  the  enlisted 
man  to  show  that  it  was  without  fault  or  neglect  on  his  part. 

169.  All  property  when  first  charged  against  enlisted  men,  includ- 
ing deserters,  must  be  entered  on  Form  No.  602,  A.  G.  O.,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  instructions  printed  thereon.     The  reports  of  survey 
required  by  A.  R,  116,  686  or  687  of  1913,  authorizing  charges  against 
deserters  or  enlisted  men,  will  be  made  sub  vouchers  to  this  statement 
of  charges,  and  will  not  be  accepted  as  vouchers-  for  dropping  the 
articles  described  thereon  frpm  the  return  of  the  accountable  officer. 

When  a  charge  is  made. on  a  pay  roll  against  a  soldier  and  not 
collected,  entry  of  the  charge  will  be  made  only  once  on  the  state- 
ment of  charges,  although  the  charge  will  appear  on  subsequent  pay 


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rolls.  When  the  charges  arc  properly  stated  on  this  form  and  the 
statement  signed  by  the  proper  officers,  it  will  constitute  a  valid 
VOUCHEK  for  dropping  the  articles  charged  from  the  return  of  the 
accountable  officer  or  for  securing  replacement  thereof  from  the  post 
or  other  supply  officer. 

170.  When  articles  of  ordnance  propeity  are  ordered  broken  up, 
or  destroyed,  in  accordance  with  an  approved  inventory  and  inspec- 
tion report,  tho  inspector  may  certify  to  the  breaking  up,  or  destruc- 
tion, of  the  property.     If  he  does  not,  a  certificate  will  be  prepared 
and  signed  by  the  witnessing  officer  setting  forth  the  breaking  up,  or 
destruction,  of  the  property.     The  approved  inventory  and  inspec- 
tion report,  with  the  certificate,  will  constitute  a  VOUCHER  author- 
izing the  accountable  officer  to  drop  from  his  return  or  secure  the 
replacement  of  the  articles  so  destroyed,  and  will  be* required  to 
accompany  tho  return  from  which  the  articles  aro  dropped. 

Before  the  condemned  property  is  destroyed  or.  broken  up,  all 
rings,  buckles,  and  other  trimmings  of  brass  will  be  cut  off  by  enlisted 
labor  and  turned  in  to  tho  post  or  other  supply  officer. 

When  a  sufficient  quantity  of  the  brass  thus  secured  shall  have 
been  accumulated  to  justify  the  cost  of  transportation,  it  will  be 
shipped  to  the  Rock  Island  Arsenal,  for  use  in  new  manufactures  or 
as  scrap;  except  that  in  the  Philippine  and  Hawaiian  Departments 
and  Canal  Zone  it  will  be  shipped  to  the  locul  ordnance  depot. 

An  approved  inventory  und  inspection  report  may  also  authorize 
a  sale  or  a  transfer  of  ordnance  property. 

When  ordnance  property  is  turned  in  to  a  post  or  depot  to  be  sold 
on  the  recommendation  of  an  inspector,  the  invoice  will  be  accom- 
panied by  extract  copies  of  tho  approved  inventory  and  inspection 
reports.  When  property  is  turned  in  to  an  arsenal  or  depot,  suitable 
reference  will  be  given  on  tho  invoice  to  the  authority  for  turning 
it  in. 

Inventory  and  inspection  reports  are  prepared  on  Form  No.  1, 
I.  G.  D. 

171.  The  appointment  of  a  special  inspector  to  nH  j>n  unserviceable 
ordnance  stores  is  limited  to  cases  of  emergency,  the  nature  of  which 
will  be  described  in  the  order  appointing  the  inspector.     Care  will 
be  exercised  in  the  selection  of  an  officer  for  this  duty.     An  inexpe- 
rienced officer,  or  one  who  is  junior  to  the  responsible  officer  com- 
manding the  troop,  battery,  company,  or  detachment  to  which  the 
property  pertains,  will  not  be  appointed. 

172.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  turned  in  to  an  arsenal 
or  other  ordnance  establishment  on  the  recommendation  of  an  insjx>c- 
tor  can  not  be  made  suitable  for  issue,  the  commanding  officer  will 
forward  to  the-  Chief  of  Ordnance  a  report  giving  the  quantities, 
kinds,  and  conditions  of  the  articles  thus  received,  in  order  that 


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instructions  may  be  given  for  the  destruction  or  breaking  up  of  the 
property,  as  authorized  by  A.  R.  907.  If  the  articles  so  received 
can  not  be  made  suitable  for  issue  and  can  not  be  utilized,  but  have 
a  salable  value,  they  can  not  be  sold  without  again  submitting  them 
for  the  action  of  ail  inspector.  If  the  breaking  up,  or  destruction, 
of  this  property  has  been  authorized  by  the  Chief  of  Ordnance,  a 
certificate  will  be  prepared  and  signed  by  the  commanding  officer 
setting  forth  the  quantities  of  the  articles  broken  up,  or  destroyed, 
and  the  authority  therefor;  if  any  scrap  results  from  this  operation 
the  certificate  will  state  the  quantities  thereof.  This  certificate  con- 
stitutes a  VOUCHER  to  the  return  of  the  accountable  officer,  authoriz- 
ing him  to  drop  the  articles  destroyed  and  requiring  him  to  take  up 
any  scrap  wliich  may  result  from  the  operation,  and  is  required  to 
accompany  the  return  to  which  it  pertains. 

173.  When  articles  of  public  property  are  destroyed  by  virtue  of 
an  approved  report  of  survey,  a  certificate  showing  the  destruction 
of  the  property  and  signed  by  the  witnessing  officer  forms  part  of  the 
report;  this  report  of  survey  constitutes  a  VOUCHER  authorizing  the 
accountable  officer  to  drop  from  his  return  the  articles  destroyed  or 
secure  their  replacement  by  the  post  or  other  supply  officer  and  requir- 
ing him  to  turn  in  to  the  supply  officer  any  rings,  buckles,  scrap,  etc., 
which  may  result  from  the  operation.     This  voucher  is  required  to 
accompany  the  return  from  which  the  articles  are  dropped. 

A.  11.  717  authorizes  the  destruction  of  the  following  ordnance 
property  on  the  approved  recommendation  of  a  surveying  officer: 

(a)  Stores  that  have  become  so  deteriorated  as  to  endanger  health 
or  other  stores. 

(ft)  Unserviceable  property  having  no  salable  value  subject  to 
the  restrictions  imposed  by  the  said  A.  R.  717. 

A  sun-eying  officer  acting  on  unserviceable  ordnance  property  is 
authorized  to  recommend  disposition  only  in  accordance  with  specific 
instructions  contained  in  War  Department  orders  and  brdnance 
pamphlets,  unless  it  may  properly  be  destroyed  on  his  recommenda- 
tion. In  all  other  cases  the  approved  recommendation  of  an  inspec- 
tor must  be  obtained  to, authorize  final  disposition. 

When  a  surveying  officer  acts  on  property  which  has  become 
unserviceable,  or  which  has  no  salable  value,  he  will  state  in  his 
finding  whether  the  condition  resulted  from  fair  wear  and  tear  in 
service;  if  the  condition  resulted  from  other  causes,  he  will  state  what 
such  causes  were. 

174.  When  small  arms  have  been  lost  in  garrison,  the  report  of 
survey,  or  the  evidence  submitted  by  the  responsible  officer  as  a 
voucher,  is  required  to  show  whether  or  not  the  arms  were  stored  at 
the  time  of  the  loss  in  arm  rafcks  or  arm  lockers  furnished  by  the 


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Ordnance  Department  for  their  safe-keeping,  or  were  being  used  at 
the  time  in  the  performance  of  a  military  duty. 

When  small  arms  pertaining  to  troops  in  tho  field,  r,nd<llo  blankets, 
time-interval  recorders,  lead  counterweights,  or  cartridge  cases  for 
cannon  have  been  lost,  the  report  of  survey,  or  evidence  submitted 
by  tho  responsible  officer  as  a  voucher,  is  required  to  show  whether 
or  not  every  reasonable  precaution  was  taken  for  their  safe-keeping. 

When  other  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  lost,  damaged,  or 
destroyed  the  report  of  survey,  or  evidence  submitted  by  the  respon- 
sible officer  as  a  voucher,  is  required  to  show  whether  or  not  the  regu- 
lations in  regard  to  their  cnro  and  preservation,  as  published  and 
referred  to  in  Article  IV  of  these  regulations,  have  boon  complied 
with.  (Sec  G.  O.  No.  20,  W.  1).  1016.) 

175.  When  ordnance  property  has  been  lost,  damaged,  or  destroyed 
at  an  arsenal  or  other  ordnance  establishment  when  it  was  under  the 
direct  control  or  supervision  of  an  employee  and  without  fault  or 
neglect  on  the  part  of  anyone,  ho  is  required  to  submit  an  affidavit 
to  this  effect  in  connection  with  tho  affidavit  or  certificate  submitted 
by   the  responsible    officer.     When   tho    responsible   officer  or   an 
employee  admits  the  responsibility,  certificates  or  affidavits  will  not 
bo  furnished  relating  to  the  circumstances,  but  a  certificate  signed  by 
the  commanding  officer  will  bo  prepared,  giving  a  list  of  the  articles 
lost,  damaged,  or  destroyed,  tho  name  of  the  person  assuming  respon- 
sibility for  the  loss,  damage,  or  destruction,  and  stating  that  the 
money  value  thereof  has  been  collected  and  deposited  to  tho  credit 
of  tho  Treasurer  of  tho  United  States.     This  certificate  constitutes 
a  VOUCHER  to  tho  return  of  the  accountable  officer,  authorizing  him 
to  drop  tho  articles  described  thereon  from  his  return',  and  is  required 
to  accompany  it. 

These  instructions  will  not  be  considered  as  discontinuing  tho 
practice  of  charging  an  employee  on  the  pay  rolls  for  defective  work 
performed  by  him,  tho  certificate  of  the  commanding  officer  not 
being  required  in  this  case. 

176.  When  ordnance  property  pertaining  to  the  National  Guard  has 
been  transferred  by  tho  United  States  property  and  clisbui-sing  officer 
for  a  State,  Territory,  or  the  District  of  Columbia  to  an  arsenal  or 
other  ordnance  establishment,  and  there  has  been  a  loss  or  deficiency 
on  its  receipt,  the  commanding  officer  of  tho  arsenal  or  other  ordnance 
establishment  is  authorized  to  appoint  a  surveying  officer  to  fix  the 
responsibility  for  the  loss  or  deficiency,  but  such  a  report  of  survey 
requires  the  action  of  tho  Secretary  of  War. 

When  ordnance  property  has  been  transferred  from  an  arsenal  or 
other  ordnance  establishment  to  the  United  States  property  and 
disbursing  officer  for  a  State,  Territory,  or  the  District  of  Columbia 
ior  the  use  of  the  National  Guard  thereof,  and  there  has  been  a  loss 


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or  deficiency  on  its  receipt,  the  property  and  disbursing  officer  will 
request  that  a  disinterested  surveying  officer  be  appointed  to  fix  re- 
sponsibility for  the  deficiency,  as  in  the  case  of  the  loss  of  ordnance 
property  already  in  the  possession  of  the  National  Guard. 

177.  When  ordnance  property  issued  to  the  head  of  any  executive 
department  or  to  the  District  of  Columbia  for  the  use  of  its  police 
has  been  lost  or  destroyed,  the  responsible  custodian  may  submit 
evidence  in  the  form  of  an  affidavit  to  show  that  the  loss  occurred 
through  unavoidable  causes  and  without  fault  or  neglect  on  his  part. 
If  the  evidence  does  not  show  that  the  loss  thus  occurrecj,  the  depart- 
ment, or  the  District  of  Columbia,  is  required  to  pay  for  the  value 
of  tho  property  so  lost,  or  destroyed,  by  a  Treasury  settlement  credit- 
ing the  fund  "Replacing  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores." 

178.  When  ordnance  property  issued  to  an  educational  institu- 
tion, to  a  State  soldiers'  and  sailors'  orphans'  home,  to  a  rifle  club, 
or  to  any  other  custodian  of  ordnance  property  for  which  a  bond  is 
required  to  provide  for  its  safe  return,  except  institutions  maintain- 
ing units  of  the  Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps,  has  been  lost  or 
destroyed,   the  responsible  custodian  is  not  authorized  to  submit 
any  voucher  with  his  return  authorizing  him  to  drop  the  property 
&o  lost  or  destroyed,  even  if  the  loss  occurred  wi  thout  fault  or  neglect 
on  his  part,  but  he  is  required  to  pay  for  such  loss  and  to  maintain 
the  ordnance  property  issued  to  him  in  a  serviceable  condition. 

When  ordnance  property  which  has  been  issued  to  an  educational 
institution,  to  a  State  soldiers'  and  sailors'  orphans'  home,  or  to  a 
rifle  club  is  turned  in  to  an  arsenal  and  found  on  its  receipt  to  show 
losd  or  damage  which  can  not  be  attributed  to  fair  wear  and  tear  in 
the  service,  the  educational  institution,  home,  or  club  will  be  charged 
with  the  money  value  of  the  stores  so. lost  or  damaged.  (See  par. 
79  of  these  regulations.) 

179.  When  ordnance  property  which  has  boen  issued  to  educa- 
tional institutions  maintaining  units  of  the  Reserve  Officers'  Train- 
ing Corps,  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  Congress  approved 
June  3,  1916,  has.  been  lost,  destroyed,  stolen,  or  damaged,  or  ren- 
dered unserviceable  from  any  cause  whatsoever,  the  cause  will  be 
investigated  by  an  officer  of  the  United  States  Army  detailed  by 
the  department  commander.     If  it  appears  that  the  loss,  damage, 
or  unserviceability  is  due  to  neglect  or  any  lack  of  reasonable  care 
or  precautions  on  the  part  of  the  authorities  of  the  institution  or  any 
member  of  the  Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps,   the  institution 
must  make  good  to  the  United  States  such  loss  or  damage.     When 
property  becomes  damaged,  the  institution  will  be  held  responsible, 
except  for  such  deterioration  as  is  due  to  fair  wear  and  tear  incident 
to  the  use  of  the  property  in  that  military  instruction  prescribed  or 
authorized  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 


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Property  lost,  destroyed,  or  damaged,  due  to  unavoidable  causes 
and  without  fault  or  ueglect  on  the  part  of  the  institution  or  any 
member  of  the  Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps,  or  which  is  worn 
out  due  to  fair  wear  and  tear  incident  to  its  use  in  military  instruc- 
tion prescribed  or  authorized  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  will  be 
repaired  or  replaced  at  the  expense  of  the  United  States. 

ARTICLE  XIII. 
NOMENCLATURE  FOR  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

180.  The  general  denomination  "ordnance  and  ordnance  stores" 
comprehends  all  cannpn  and  their  carriages,  machine  and  automatic 
guns  And  their  carriages  and  mounts,  and  the  vehicles,  harness,  pack 
outfits,  accessories,  implements,  equipments,  etc.,  for  their  manipu- 
lation and  maintenance;  small  arms  and  their  parts  and  appendages; 
ammunition  of  all  kinds;  personal  equipments  of  the  soldier;  and 
horse  equipments  of  mounted  men,  except  those  in  the  Quarter- 
master's Department;  machines,  tools,  materials,  and  supplies  for  the 
ordnance  service;  and  all  propert}-  of  whatever  nature,  except  sub- 
marine mine  property,  supplied  to  the  military  establishment  by  the 
Ordnance  Department. 

181.  Care  will  be  taken  in  the  preparation  of  returns  and  vouchers 
that  the  nomenclature  -prescribed  in  ordnance  price  lists  and  in 
official  pamphlets  descriptive  of  the  articles  accounted  for  shall  be 
strictly  followed.     When  the  nomenclature  is  not  prescribed  in  any 
price  list  or  pamplilet  and  the  articles  are  described  on  drawings,  the 
nomenclature  prescribed  therein  will  be  followed;  but  in  describing 
the  parts  of  an  article  it  may  be  necessary  to  qualify  the  description 
found  in  the  body  of  the  drawings  by  prefixing  to  it  the  name  of  the 
article  to  which  it  pertains. 

182.  When  an  article  of  ordnance  property  consists  of  components 
which  are  standard  articles  of  issue  to  the- service  and  so  reported  in 
ordnance  price  lists,  and  is  incomplete,  it  will  be  described  and 
accounted  for  according  to  the  quantities  of  the  components  on 
hand.     When  an   article  of  ordnance  property  is  incomplete  by 
reason  of  a  missing  part  which  is  not  listed  as  a  standard  compo- 
nent, the  incomplete  article  will  be  described,  and  accounted  for  as 
without  the  part. 

183.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  described  on  a  voucher 
in  general  language,  as  "Six  2.95-inch  mountain  guns,  complete, 
with  carriages,  accessories,  etc.,"  the  accounting  for  these  articles 
under  such  an  indefinite  description  will  result  in  rendering  the  return 
based  on  such  a  voucher  unsatisfactory  and  unreliable.     It  is  for- 
bidden, therefore,  that  such  methods  of  describing  property  shall  bo 
followed,  and  general  descriptions  will  not  be  used  except  in  cases 


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where  they  are  well  known  to  the  service  as  covering  certain  definite 
quantities  of  articles.  Since  the  quantities  of  the  articles  contained 
in  the  various  sets  of  reloading  took,  repair  kits,  etc.,  have  been 
published  in  price  lists  which  have  been  distributed  to  the  service^ 
there  is  no  objection  to  describing  these  articles  according  to  the 
nomenclature  found  in  the  price  lists.  However,  when  there  is  a 
doubt  of  a  receiving  officer  having  a  complete  knowledge  of  the  com- 
ponents of  any  set,  the  property  will  be  described  by  the  quantities 
of  these  components. 

184.  When  machines,  fixtures,  tools,  etc.,  which  are  not  described 
on  any  drawings  are  accounted  for,  the  nomenclature  will  be  that 
followed  by  the  builders  or  makers  of  such  "articles  and  which  is 
generally  found  in  bulletins  or  pamphlets  issued  by  them  to  the  trade. 
In  describing  machinery  and  other  articles,  the  name  of  the  maker  will 
follow  that  of  tke  machine. 

185.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  packed  in  boxes  or 
crates,  the  descriptioa  of  such  property  on  a  voucher  covers  the  con- 
tainers, but  when  empty  boxes,  cases,  crates,  barrels,  etc.,  are  trans- 
ferred separately  they  will  be  fully  described  on  the  voucher  and  will 
be  accounted  for  under  the  classification  to  which  the  articles  pertain. 
When  such  empty  boxes,  cases,  etc.,  are  on  hand  for  the  packing  of 
prescribed  articles,  they  are  required  to  be  taken  up  and  accounted 
for.    When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  packed  in  cliests,  car- 
tridge storage  cases,  metallic  barrels,  or  kegs  holding  25  pounds  of 
powder  or  more,  the  descriptions  of  the  articles  do  not  cover  those  of 
the  containers,  which  are  required  to  be  described  separately  on  the 
voucher  and  to  be  accounted  for  whether  empty  or  not. 

186.  The  description  of  a  building  and  the  corresponding  accounta- 
bility therefor  covers  all  the  appurtenances  ordinarily  pertaining  to 
it,  such,  as  the  heating  plant,  lighting  plant,  etc.    The  accountability 
for  a  machine  covers  the  countershaf ting,  belting,  and  the  accessories 
required  to  operate  it  for  all  the  purposes  for  Which  it  was  procured. 

Main  line  shafting,  with  its  hangers,  puHeys,  and  belting,  is 
accounted  for  separately. 

When  a  heating  or  lighting  plant  is  installed  for  the  heating  or 
illumination  of  several  buildings,  the  accountability  for  the  buildings 
will  not  cover  accountability  for  these  general  appurtenances,  which 
will  be  accounted  for  separately.  A  heating  plant  of  this  character 
wiU  be  described  and  accounted  for  according  to  the  quantities  of  the 
components  of  which  it  consists,  as  follows: 

One  heating  plant,  consisting  of radiators  . feet  and 

inches  piping  (adding  such  other  components  as  pertain  to 

the  system). 

A  similar  method  will  be  followed  in  describing  lighting  systems, 
telephone  systems,  etc* 


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187.  When  articles  of  ordnance  property  having  serial  numbers, 
such  as  cannon,   carriages,   limbers,   caissons,   instruments  for  fire 
control,  telescopic  sights,  etc.,  are  issued  to  the  mobile  and  seacoast 
artillery,  the  serial  numbers  will  be  noted  on  the  vouchers  covering 
the  transfer  of  the  articles.     Such  articles  will  not,  however,  be 
accounted  for  by  their  numbers  on  the  returns. 

188.  The  serial  number  and  model  of  each  rifle,  pistol,  and  revolver, 
dropped  from  an  ordnance  property  return,  under  an  inventory  and 
inspection  report,  report  of  survey,  or  statement  of  charges,  will  be 
given  on  the  voucher,  but  the  serial  numbers  of  such  small  arms  will 
not  be  entered  on  the  property  .returns. 

189.  When  it  is  desired  to  transfer  articles  of  ordnance  property 
from  the  serviceable  to  the  unserviceable  class,  or  from  stock  to 
current  use,  or  to  account  for  them  under  a  different  nomenclature 
from  that  under  which  they  were  originally  accounted  for  at  an 
arsenal  or  other  ordnance  establishment,  they  will  be  reported  on  a 
monthly  abstract  of  transfers,  prepared  on  Forms  Nos.  274  and  275, 
the  former  being  the  outside  sheet  and  the  latter  the  inside  sheet, 
in  accordance  with  the  instructions  printed  on  the  outside  sheet. 
Whenever  changes  in  nomenclature  or  in  the  conditions  of  articles 
are   made,   based   upon  manufacturing  or  other  operations,   such 
changes  will  not  be  provided  for  on  the  abstract  of  transfers,  but  by 
the  methods  stated  in  paragraphs  158  and  172  of  these  regulations. 

The  abstract  of  transfers  is  a  VOUCHER  to  the  return  of  the  acooun- 
able  officer,  authorizing  him  to  make  the  appropriate  entries  thereon, 
and  is  required  to  accompany  it. 

When  similar  transfers  of  nomenclature  are  desired  to  be  made  by 
other  accountable  officers,  the  necessary  voucher  will  be  in  the  form 
of  a  certificate  describing  the  quantities  of  the  articles  dropped  and 
the  quantities  of  the  same  articles  under  different  descriptions  taken 
up,  etc.,  and  this  VOUCHER  will  accompany  the  return  to  which  it 
pertain*. 

Articles  of  ordnance  property  borne  on  a  return  as  serviceable 
will  not  be  transferred  to  the  unserviceable  class  and  so'  accounted 
for  until  acted  upon  by  an  inspector  or  survey  officer,  and  the  inspec- 
tion report  or  report  of  survey  filed  as  authority  for  the  transfer. 

ARTICLE  XIV. 
ACCOUNTABILITY  FOR  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

See  A.  R.  86,  681 A  to  68 IN,  inclusive,  per  changes  A.  R.  56,  May  10, 
1917,  693,  694,  695,  696,  697,  698,  699,  700,  701,  1308,  and  1549  of 
1913,  and  the  regulations  governing  the  National  Guard  of  the  United 
States. 

190.  The  object  of  making  a  return  is  to  present,  at  stated  times, 
in  a  condensed  form,  according  to  a  well-arranged  system,  an  exact 


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account,  duly  vouched  for,  of  all  the  property  with  which  an  officer  is 
properly  to  be  debited,  and  also  of  all  the  property  with  which  he  is 
to  be  credited.  The  difference  between  the  two  gives  his  exact 
accountability. 

191.  For  the  purpose  of  accountability,  ordnance  property  at  the 
arsenals  and  ordnance  depots  will  be  considered  as  consisting  of  two 
divisions,  namely: 

FIRST  DIVISION.  Property  in  which  transactions  affecting  the 
accountability  therefor  are  frequent;  and 

SECOND  DIVISION.  Property  in  which  transactions  affecting  the 
accountability  therefor  are  infrequent. 

The  first  division  applies  to  such  articles  of  ordnance  and  ordnance 
stores  as  are  the  subject  of  frequent  issues,  receipts,  sales,  or  other 
disposition  affecting  the  accountability  therefor. 

The  second  division  applies  to  such  articles  of  ordnance  and  ord- 
nance stores  as  are  obsolete  and  the  greater  number  of  tools  and 
machines  in  current  service,  disposition  of  which  affecting  the 
accountability  therefor  is  Infrequent. 

When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  closely  related  to  each  other 
by  their  use  in  service,  as  a  gun  with  its  carriage,  sights,  accessories, 
implements,  etc.,  such  articles  will  not  be  accounted  for  as  in  part 
pertaining  to  one  division  and  in  part  to  the  other  division;  but  the 
frequency  of  the  transactions  affecting  the  accountability  of  att  the 
articles  will  be  considered  and  the  division  to  which  they  should 
pertain  determined  accordingly. 

Arrangement  of  the  property  into  these  two  divisions  is  made  by 
the  commanding  officers  of  the  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots,  subject 
to  the  approval  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance. 

An  article  at  any  ordnance  establishment  will  not  be  considered  as 
included  in  both  divisions,  except  in  such  cases  as  when  an  article  in 
current  service  pertaining  to  the  second  division  may  also  be  a 
component  of  another  article,  or  set  of  articles,  pertaining  to  the 
first  division,  or  conversely. 

192.  The  articles  embraced  in  the  first  division  are  accounted  for 
on  a  semiannual  return,  consisting  qf  a  front  cover  (Form  No.  15, 
front  cover),  a  back  cover  (Form  No.  15,  back  cover),  the  register  of 
vouchers  or  index  to  the  return  (Form  No.  16),  and  the  remaining 
inside  sheets  or  forms  on  which  the  entries  authorized  by  the  several 
vouchers  are  made. 

The  front  cover  has  been  prepared  to  give  a  description  of  the 
return,  the  name  of  the  arsenal  or  depot  to  which  it  pertains,  the 
period  covered  by  the  return,  and  the  name  of  the  accountable  officer, 
together  with  certain  other  information  pertaining  to  the  settlement 
of  the  return.  The  back  cover  has  been  prepared  on  the  inside  to 
show  transfers  of  accountability  during  the  accounting  period,  the 


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values  of  dU  the  property  on  hand,  and  contains  the  certificate 
required  t<>  be  made  by  the  accountable  officer  on  the  rendition  of  the 
return. 

The  register  of  vouchers  has  been  prepared  for  the  description 
of  th*  vouchers  to  the  return  by  their  numbers  and  the  names  of  the 
receiving  <>r  issuing  officers  or  agents  of  the  Government,  and  for 
the  entry  of  the  pages  of  the  return  on  which  the  transactions  author- 
ized by  the  vouchers  are  made.  When  the  voucher  is  not  one  which 
is  descriptive  of  transactions  between  officers,  the  character  of  the 
voucher  is  stated  in  the  column  for  the  names  of  the  receiving  or 
issuing  officers. 

The  remaining  inside  sheets  of  the  return  (Form  No.  15  and  modifi- 
cations) have  been  prepared  in  forms  to  provide  for  the  description 
of  the  articles  to  be  accounted  for  thereon,  the  numbers  of  the  vouch- 
ers covering  transactions  in  the  return,  and  the  corresponding 
columns  under  the  heading  of  the  several  articles  on  which  the 
entries  based  on  the  vouchers  are  made.  Two  marginal  columns 
are  furnished  on  each  sheet  for  the  entries  of  the  voucher  numbers, 
one  column  for  the  entry  of  the  numbers  of  the  vouchers  covering 
receipts  of  property  and  the  other  for  the  vouchers  covering  issues 
thereof.  Two  columns  are  also  provided  undej  the  heading  of  each 
article,  one  for  the  entry  of  the  quantities  received  and  the  other  for 
the  quantities  issued.  In  addition,  these  sheetd  provide  for  the 
stating  of  the  conditions  of  the  articles,  the  proper  fojo tings  of  the 
several  quantities  thereof,  and  for  the  stating  of  the  quantities  found 
on  hand  on  the  taking  of  the  annual  inventory.  For  the  greater 
number  of  the  standard  articles  issued  to  the  service  the  inside 
sheets  are  f'iniished  in  forms  containing  printed  descriptions  of  these 
articles  in  accordance  with  the  standard  nomenclature.  For  the 
remaining  articles,  inside  sheets  (Form  No.  15),  having  blank  head- 
ings, are  furnished,  on  which  the  accountable  officer  is  required  to 
write  in  the  description  of  the  articles  required  to  be  accounted  for. 
A  description  of  these  forms  is  published  in  the  appendix  to  these 
regulations. 

The  return  is  so  arranged  in  its  front  and  back  covers  that  the 
register  of  vouchers  constitutes  the  first  part  and  the  various  remain- 
ing inside  sheets  the  second  part.  These  sheets  are  arranged  and 
paged  in  accordance  with  the  classification  of  the  articles  accounted 
for  thereon. 

This  form  of  return  will  be  known  as  the  SEMIANNUAL,  RETURN, 
FIKST  DIVISION. 

193.  The  articles  embraced  in  the  Second  Division  are  accounted 
for  on  a  semiannual  return,  consisting  of  a  CERTIFICATE  setting 
forth  the  division  of  ordnance  property  to  which  it  pertains  and 
stating  the  quantities  of  the  articles  on  hand  in  which  transactions 


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affecting  the  accountability  therefor  occurred  during  the  semiannual 
period,  and  that  the  quantities  and  conditions  of  the  remaining 
articles  arc  the  same  as  at  the  close  of  the  preceding  semiannual 
period.  Supplementing  this  certificate,  record  cards  (Form  No.  17) 
are  furnished  by  the  accountable  officer  for  the  articles  embraced  in 
the  division,  which  gives  their  classification,  quantities  on  hand, 
their  conditions,  values,  and  dispositions.  A  sot  of  these  cards  is 
always  retained  in  the  office  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  and  another 
set  is  retained  by  the  accountable  officer.  Since  the  certificate  is 
based  on  .the  information  contained  on  these  cards,  they  are,  there- 
fore, supplemental  parts  of  it.  These  cards  are  frequently  referred 
to  as  the  card  property  return. 

This  form  of  return  will  be  knov/n  as  the  SEMIANNUAL  RETUTIN, 
Second  Division. 

194.  For  the  purpose  of  accountability,  the  ordnance  property  for 
which  coast  defense  ordnance  officers  are  accountable  will  be  divided 
into  two  divisions,  viz: 

First  Division. — This  will  include  all  seacoast  guns  and  mortars, 
their  carriages,  spare  parts,  implements,  and  equipments;  sub- 
caliber  guns  and  their  fittings;  range-finding  instruments;  articles 
for  mechanical  maneuvers;  machines  and  tools  for  permanent  use 
at  posts;  drawing  instruments;  and  all  other  stores  in  which  trans- 
actions affecting  the  accountability  therefor  rarely  occur. 

Second  D\vision. — This  will  include  all  other  articles  or  ordnance 
property  for  which  coast  defense  ordnance  officers  are  accountable, 
and  which  aro  not  included  in  the  First  Division.  All  property  of 
the  Second  Division  will  be  accounted  for  on  semiannual  returns 
made  on  Form  No.  18-Covcr-B,  and  Form  No.  18  (using  such  copies 
with  blank  or  printed  headings  as  may  be  required),  in  accordance 
with  the  instructions  printed  on  the  back  of  Form  No.  18-Covcr-B. 

An  article  will  not  be  considered  as  included  in  both  divisions. 

The  articles  embraced  in  the  First  Division  wiU  be  accounted 
for  on  a  triplicate  system  of  record  cards  (Form  No.  17-A),  one  set 
of  which  will  be  kept  in  the  office  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  and  tne 
other  two  sets  in  the  office  of  the  coast  defense  ordnance  officer. 

When  a  complete  transfer  of  accountability  occurs,  one  of  these 
sets  will  be  transmitted  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  and  the  other  -will 
be  retained  by  the  coast  defense  ordnance  officer  Upon  receipt 
back  from  the  office  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  of  the  duplicate  set,  if 
any  changes  have  been  made  therein,  the  triplicate  set  of  cards  will 
at  once  be  made  to  agree  therewith.  Each  card  will  give  the  name 
of  an  article,  its  classification,  and.  the  various  quantities  on 
hand  at  different  times,  as  shown  by  the  transactions  recorded  on 
the  card.  No  debit  or  credit  entries  will  be  made  on  the  cards,  as 
any  alterations  in  the  quantities  on  hand  will  be  explained  by  refer- 


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once  to  the  voucher  authorizing  the  cnnnge  of  accountability.  Tn 
describing  the  article-*  on  the  card,  the  distinctive  noun  should  bo 
given  first  on  the  Jim  headed  "Article,"  followed  by  proper  descrip- 
tion, according  to  the  nomenclature  or  description  given  in  the 
ordnance  price  lists  or  pamphlets. 

195.  All  vouchers  \\hich  cover  property  pertaining  exclusively  to 
the  First  Division  will  be  numbered  in  sequence,  from  1  on  con- 
tinuously, irrespective,  as  to  whether  they  cover  receipt  or  dispo- 
sition of  property,  and  the  words  i'  1st  Div.v  will  be  placed  right  after 
the  voucher  number  on  such  vouchers,  so  as  to  distinguish  them 
from  vouchers  pertaining  to  the  other  return. 

To  provide  a  record  of  the  last  serial  number  used  and  the  next 
number  available,  and  to  prevent  duplicating  numbers,  and  also  to 
provide  for  reference  purposes,  etc.,  a~description  of  each  voucher,  a 
continuous  register  or  record  of  the  vouchers  pertaining  exclusively  to 
the  First  Division  return,  will  be  kept  on  Form  No.  17-B  and  Form 
No.  17-B-l,  in  accordance  with  the  instructions  printed  on  the 
back  of  Form  No.  17-B. 

The  form  below  illustrates  the  method  to  be  followed  in  making 
the  entries  on  this  register. 

FORM  Xo.  17-B. 
(Approved  "by  the  Sec.  of  War  March  18, 1914.) 

Register  of  vouchers  pertaining  exclusively  to  the  return  of  the  First  Division  ordnance 

property. 


Serial 
number     Date  of 
of         voucher, 
voucher. 

Received  from  or  issued  to  — 

Description  of  profxrty  covered 
by  voucher.   . 

1914. 
1     July     3 

To  C.  O.,  Watervllet  Arsenal  

23"  guns,  mod.  of  1903. 

2     July   11 

From  C.  O.,  New  York  Arsenal^,....  

H  vdraullc  jacks  . 

3     July  31 

From  C.  O.,  Watervliet  Arsenal  

23"  guns,  mod.  of  1903. 

1 

When  a  voucher  covers  transactions  pertaining  to  both  forms  of 
returns  it  will  be  considered  as  pertaining  to  the  return  of  the  Second 
Division  property,  but  the  words  "1st  Div."  will  be  written  or 
stamped  on  such  vouchers  opposite  the  names  of  the  several  articles 
which  are  accounted  for  on  the  record  cards.  A  change  in  account- 
ability on  a  card  authorized  by  a  voucher  pertaining  to  the  return 
of  the  Second  Division  property  will  be  indicated  by  giving  its  proper 

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number  with  the  notation  "2d  Div."  beneath,  as  ..  .~,v 

2d  Div. 

The  form  below  illustrates  the  method  to  be  followed  in  preparing 
the  record  cards. 

62290°— 18 5 


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FORM  X<>.  17- A. 

(Approved  Ijy  the  Sec.  of  War  March  IS,  1014.) 
8.  A.  R.,  1st  Div.  C.  D.  of  Xarragansett  Bay. 

Class  /.    Sect  ion  2. 

Article: 

Guns, 3-inch,  l.">  jxlr.,  model  of  1903. 


Initials 

Date. 

Voucher 
No. 

Quan- 
tity. 

of  cor- 
rect- 

Remarks. 

m 

ness. 

7 

1 

14 

On  hand 

2 

J.  D. 

1  uns. 

10 

2 

14 

20 

0 

J.  D. 

12 

3 

14 

26 

2 

J.  D. 

O.K. 

6 

2 

15 

80 

3 

J.  D. 

2D. 

106.  When  a  transaction  occurs  in  any  article  accounted  for  by  a 
record  card  proper  entries  will  at  once  be  made  and  initialed  to 
cover  the  transaction  on  each  of  the  two  copies  of  the  card,  in  the 
duplicate  and  triplicate  sets  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  coast-defense 
ordnance  officer,  and  one  of  these  copies  of  the  card,  accompanied 
by  the  voucher,  then  promptly  transmitted,  without  letter,  to  the 
ordnance  office.  If  the  voucher  pertains  to  both  forms  of  return,  it 
will,  nevertheless,  be  transmitted.  When  this  record  card  has  been 
audited,  the  corresponding  card  covering  accountability  for  the  same 
article  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  will  be  returned 
to  the  accountable  officer,  together  with  the  voucher  if  it  pertains  to 
the  return  of  the  Second  Division  property.  On  receipt  of  this  card 
by  the  accountable  officer  he  is  required  to  continue  the  record  on  it, 
so  that  it  will  agree  with  the  copy  previously  transmitted  and  placed 
in  the  set  on  file  in  the  ordnance  office,  and  then  file  it  in  the  duplicate 
set  retained  in  his  office. 

197.  At  the  close  of  each  semiannual  period  (June  30  and  Dec. 
31)  the  accountable  officer  will  furnish  a  certificate,  made  on  form 
No.  17-C,  which  constitutes  the  semiannual  return  of  First  Division 
property,  on  which  he  will  relate  the  quantities  of  the  articles  in  which 
transactions  have  occurred  during  the  period  and  state  that  for  the 
remaining  articles  the  accountability  is  the  same  as  at  the  close  of  the 
preceding  accounting  period.  The  form  below  illustrates  the  method 
to  be  followed  in  executing  these  semiannual  return  certificates: 


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FORM  No.  17-C. 

(Approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War  Mar.  18,  1914.) 
SEMIANNUAL  RETURN — FIRST  DIVISION. 

COAST  DEFENSES  OP  NARRAGANSETT  BAY, 

December  31,  1914. 

I  certify  that  the  quantities  of  the  articles  of  ordnance  property  pertaining  to  the 
First  Division  of  the  semiannual  return  were  the  same  at  the  close  of  the  last  semiannual 
accounting  period  as  they  were  at  the  close  of  the  preceding  semiannual  accounting 
period,  except  in  the  case  of  the  following  articles  of  ordnance  property  in  which  trans- 
actions have  occurred  during  the  semiannual  period,  and  that  the  return  covers  the 
actual  quantities  of  each  of  the  different  articles  at  the  end  of  the  period  for  which  it 
is  rendered,  viz: 

Class  /.    Section  4. 

0  Guns,  1-pdr.,  subcaliber  for  12"  rifles,  models  of  1888  and  1895. 
2  Wrenches,  securing  screw,  for  1-pdr.  subcaliber  gun,  model  of  1900. 

Class  /.     Section  8. 
4  Pans,  drip,  model  B. 

******* 

JOHN  DOE, 
Capt.,  Coast  Arty.  Corps,  U.  S.  A., 

Coast  Defense  Ord.  Ojficer. 
JANUAKT  2,  1915. 

198.  The  various  certificates,  record  cards,  and  vouchers  pertain- 
ing exclusively  to  the  semiannual  return,  First  Division,  will  be  filed 
in  the  office  of  the  ordnance  officer  of  each  of  the  coast  defenses,  so  as 
to  provide  for  their  safety  and  accessibility  at  all  times.  The  record 
cards  will  be  filed  in  suitable  drawers,  in  which  they  will  be  arranged 
according  to  their  classes  and  sections,  and  the  cards  in  each  section 
placed  in  alphabetical  order. 

199."  When  the  transactions  in  any  article  of  ordnance  property 
pertaining  to  the  First  Division  of  the  return  exhausts  the  quantity 
previously  on  hand,  the  appropriate  record  card  is  no  longer  con- 
sidered a  live  card,  and  will  be  filed  in  a  separate  drawer,  wherein 
such  inactive  cards  will  be  arranged  according  to  their  classification. 
If  a  transaction  subsequently  occurs  in  this  article  the  same  card  will 
be  again  filed  with  the  live  cards  and  the  record  continued  thereon. 

200.  When  the  records  of  transactions  occupy  all  available  space 
on  both  sides  of  a  card  an  additional  card  will  be  employed,  and 
roference  will  be  made  on  this  card  showing  that  the  records  thereon 
are  a  continuation  of  those  on  a  previous  card.     For  the  purpose  of 
accountability  these  two  cards,  and  any  additional  cards  that  may 
be  found  necessary  for  a  continuation  of  the  record,  will  be  considered 
as  one  card. 

201.  When  a  coast-defense  ordnance  officer  is  succeeded  in  that 
capacity  by  another  the  transfer  of  accountability  for  the  property 
embraced  in  the  Second  Division  will  be  made  after  the  manner 
prescribed  for  post  ordnance  officers,  and  to  cover  the  transfer  of  the 
accountability  for  the  property  embraced  in  the  First  Division  the 


68      . 

transferring  officer  will  transmit  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  the  dupli- 
cate set  of  record  cards  on  file  in  his  office,  accompanied  by  proper 
certificates  executed  on  Form  No.  17-D  in  accordance  with  the 
instructions  printed  thereon.  The  form  below  will  illustrate  the 
method  to  be  followed  in  executing  the  certificates  on  Form  No.  17-D. 

FORM  No.  17-D. 
(Approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War  Mar.  18, 1014.) 

I  certify  that  all  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  shown  on  hand  by  the  record 
cards  transmitted  herewith  have  this  10th  day  of  October,  1914,  been  transferred  by 
me  to  Captain  John  Doe,  Coast  Artillery  Corps, 

FRANK  SMITH, 

1st  Lieut.,  Coast  Arty.  Corps,  U.  S.  A. 
(Number  of  cards  1,000.) 

I  certify  that  all  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  shown  on  hand  by  the  record 
cards  transmitted  herewith  have  been  received  by  me  from  Lieut.  Frank  Smith,  Coast 
Artillery  Corps,  on  this  10th  day  of  October,  1914. 

JbHN  DOE, 

Capt.,  Coast  Arty.  Corps,  U.  S.  A., 

Coast  Defense  Qrd.  Officer. 
(Number  of  cards  1,000.) 

Theso  certificates  will  be  prepared  in  duplicate  and  one  set  will 
be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  ordnance  officer  of  the  coast  defenses 
where  the  property  is  located.  Each  certificate  wifl  state  the  num- 
ber of  accompanying  record  cards. 

When  the  record  cards,  accompanied  by  the.  preceding  certifi- 
cates, shall  have  been  received  by  the  Chief  of  Ordnance,  they 
will  be  compared  with  the  record  cards  in  the  ordnance  office,  and 
in  case  they  agree  the  outgoing  officer  will  be  relieved  from  further 
accountability  for  the  property,  and  the  duplicate  set  of  record  cards 
will  be  transmitted  to  the  incoming  officer,  who,  upon  receipt  of 
this  duplicate  set  of  cards,  will  at  once  have  the  same  compared 
with  the  triplicate  set  of  these  cards  on  file  in  his  office  to  see  that 
these  two  sets  of  the  cards  agree  in  all  resp«cts*  The  next  semi- 
annual certificate  return  covering  the  property  embraced  in  the 
First  Division  rendered  by  the  incoming  officer  will  be  modified 
in  part  to  read  as  follows: 

I  certify  that  the  quantities  of  the  articles  of  ordnance  property  pertaining  to  the 
First  Division  of  the  semiannual  return  were  the  same  at  the  close  of  the  last  semi- 
annual period  as  they  were  when  the  property  was  transferred  to  me. 

*  *  *  *  *  *  * 

202.  When  it  is  desired  to  transfer  accountability  for  any  articles 
of  ordnance  property  from  one  form  of  semiannual  return  to  the 
other,  a  letter  will  be  addressed  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  by  the 
coast  defense  ordnance  officer,  describing  the  quantities  and  kinds 
of  articles  and  the  forms  of  return  from  which  and  to  which  it  is 
desired  to  transfer  the  accountability.  In  case  the  application 
meets  with  the  approval  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance,  a  copy  of  the 


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communication  and  of  the  approval  will  constitute  a  voucher  for 
the  purpose  of  making  the  desired  transfer. 

203.  The  accountability  for  ordnance  property   of   commanding 
officers  of  field  ordnance  depots,  camp  and  post  ordnance  officers  and 
inspectors  of  ordnance  will  be  rendered  on  semiannual  returns  made 
on  Form  No.  18 — Cover — B  and  Form.  No.  18  (using  such  copies  with 
blank  or  printed  headings  as  may  be  required)  in  accordance  with  the 
instructions  printed  on  the  back  of  Form  No.  18 — Cover — B,  except 
that  the  ordnance  property  in  the  museums  at  the  Army  service 
schools  at  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kans.,  and  the  School  of  Musketry  at 
Fort  Sill,  Okla.,  will  be  accounted  for  on  a  duplicate  system  of  record 
cards  (Form  No.  17),  such  as  are  used  at  the  arsenals  in  accounting  for 
property  pertaining  to  the  second  division. 

204.  The  accountability  for  ordnance  property  in  the  possession  of 
educational  institutions,  except  schools  to  which  rifles  and  ammuni- 
tion have  been  issued  under  the  act  of  Congress  approved  April 
27,  1914,  and  other  custodians  of  ordnance  property  not  specifically 
provided  for  in  these  regulations  is  rendered  on  semiannual  returns 
(except  for  United^  States  property  and  disbursing  officers  for  States, 
etc.)  made  on  Form  No.  18— -Cover  and  Form  No.  18  (using  such 
copies  with  blank  or  printed  headings  as  may  be  required)  in  accord- 
ance with  the  instructions  printed  on  the  back  of  Form  No.  18,  Cover. 

205.  The  accountability  for  ordnance  property  in  the  possession  of 
regiments,  separate  battalions,  or  other  tactical  organizations  sup- 
plied with  the  equipment  listed  in  the  various  equipment  manuals 
as  equipment  "C,"  will  be  rendered  on  semiannual  returns  made  by 
but  one  accountable  officer  to  be  designated  as  the  Regimental  or 
Battalion  Ordnance  Officer  for  each  regiment,  separate  battalion, 
field  hospital,  etc.,  on  blanks  of  a  loose-leaf  character,  Forms  No.  599, 
599a,  and  599b,  A.  G.  O.,  with  a  separate  sheet  for  each  article  and 
columns  for  date,  voucher  numbers,  debit  entries,  credit  entries,  and 
balances.     Batteries,  troops,  companies  or  detachments  will  hold  on 
memorandum,  receipts  from  the  ordnance  supply  officer  of  the  unit 
of  which  they  form  a  part,  the  articles  of  equipment  "C"  prescribed 
in  the  equipment  manuals  as  pertaining  to  them.     Garrison  equip- 
ment will  be  held  by  organization  commanders  on  memorandum 
receipts  from  post  ordnance  officers.     Should  local  conditions  make 
it  desirable  or  necessary  to  have  an  accounting  officer  for  any  detach- 
ment serving  separately  from  its  parent  organization  one  may  bo 
designated  for  that  purpose  and  the  articles  of  equipment  "C"  that 
pertain  to  such  detachment  will  be  transferred  to  the  designated 
accountable  officer  of  the  detachment,  but  as  soon  as  the  conditions 
making  this  separate  accountability  necessary  cease,  the  account  will 
be  closed  by  transferring  back  to  the  unit  ordnance  supply  officer  of 
the  parent  organization  the  accountability  for  the  property  which 


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had  been  carried  separately.     (See  A.  R.  681A  to  N,  inclusive,  as  per 
changes  AR  No.  5G,  10  May,  1916.) 

206.  There  shall  habitually  be  but  one  accountable  officer  for  the 
ordnance  property  in  each  coast  defense  district,  and  this  accountable 
officer  will  render  semiannual  returns  on  the  forms  prescribed  in  para- 
graph 195  of  these  regulations.     Coast  Artillery  organizations  will 
hold  on  memorandum  receipts  from  the  Coast  Defense  ordnance  offi- 
cers the  prescribed  equipment  "C"  for  their  actual  strength  and  such 
memorandum  receipts  will  be  separate  from  those  for  other  property 
issued  to  those  organizations. 

In  case  Coast  Artillery  companies  are  organized  into  tactical  units 
for  field  service  of  an  indefinite  duration,  the  articles  of  equipment 
"C"  pertaining  to  such  troops  will  be  invoiced  to  the  unit  ordnance 
officers  of  such  units.  Complete  information  as  to  the  method  of 
accounting  for  ordnance  property  under  this  system  is  contained  in 
A.  R.  681-A  to  681-N  (embodied  in  "Changes  Army  Regulations  No. 
56,  May  10, 1917 ")>  and  in  instructions  printed  on  the  various  forma 
prescribed  by  those  regulations. 

207.  Officers  of  the  Army  below  the  grade  of  major,  not  serving 
with  an  organization  supplied  with  unit  equipment,  or  at  a  post,  to 
whom  horse  equipments  have  been  issued  are  required  to  account  for 
them  semiannually  on  Form  No.  18-«-A. 

208.  Executive  officers  of  rifle  clubs  and  schools  to  which  rifles 
and  ammunition  have  been  issued  under  the  act  of  Congress  ap- 
proved April  27,  1914,  will  account  for  the  property  in  their  posses- 
sion, semiannually  in  the  case  of  rifle  clubs,  and  annually  in  the  case 
of  schools,  on  returns  made  on  Form  No.  18-B. 

209.  The  cover  (Form  No.   18-Cover,  or  18-Cover-B)   and  the 
appropriate  inside  sheets  arranged  in  the  cover  in  the  sequence  of  the 
various  classes  and  sections  and  secured  by  a  tape  or  cord  will  con- 
stitute a  blank  return. 

The  front  of  the  cover  is  spaced  and  ruled  so  as  to  provide  for  a 
description  of  the  return;  the  inside  is  ruled  and  spaced  for  a  register 
of  vouchers,  and  on  the  inside  of  the  back  of  the  cover  are  provided 
necessary  certificates  to  cover  complete  transfers  of  accountability, 
the  correctness  of  the  return,  and  the  making  of  the  required  inven- 
tory. When  a  return  is  rendered  by  a  United  States  property  and 
disbursing  officer  for  a  State  or  Territory  or  for  the  District  of  Colum- 
bia, the  description  of  the  return  will  be  modified  so  as  to  show  that 
it  is  an  annual  return  instead  of  a  semiannual  return. 

The  various  inside  sheets  (Form  18  and*  its  modifications)  are 
arranged  by  forms  so  that  each  distinctive  kind  of  stores  has  its  own 
form  number,  and  therefore  the  return  will  only  consist  of  such 
inside  sheets  as  cover  tjie  articles  for  which  an  officer  is  responsible. 
Inside  sheets  with  blank  headings  (Form  No.  18)  are  also  furnished 
to  cover  accountability  for  articles  for  which  forms  with  printed 


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headings  are  not  supplied.  Tho  return  is  required  to  be  executed 
in  accordance  with  the  instructions  printed  on  the  back  of  the  cover, 
and  these  instructions  contemplate  that  the  return  shall  be  a  con- 
tinuous record  of  all  transactions  affecting  the  accountability  of  tho 
officer  rendering  the  return.  When  the  return  is  kept  as  a  continuous 
record,  the  accountable  officer  can  ascertain  at  any  time  his  respon- 
sibility for  the  ordnance  property  intrusted  to  him. 

The  form  below  illustrates  the  method  to  bo  followed  in  preparing 
a  register  of  vouchers  on  Form  No.  18-Cover  when  no  complete  trans- 
fer of  accountability  occurs : 

Form  No.  IS— Cover. 


Nos.  of 
vouchers. 

Dates. 

Register  of  vouchers,  period  ended  June  30,  1917. 

Received  from,  or  issued  to:  ((live  name,  rank,  command,  and  station,  in  every 
instance.) 

1917. 
Jan.     1 

On  hand  from  last  return  ,  

1 
'        2 

Jan.    20 
Mar.  10 

•Received  from  BKiiooeooof  Major  Jno.  Smith,  Ord.  Dept.,  Rockford  Arsenal,  N.  Y  .  . 
Received  from  Lt.  Thos.  Brown,  25th  Inf.,  Fort  Roberts,  Wyo  

3 

May  17 

Issued  to  Capt.  Jno.  Jones,  12th  Cavy.,  Columbia  Bks.,  Mo  

4 

5 

June    6 
June  30 

Recelvedfrom  Lt.  Jas.  Williams.  C.  A.  C.,  O.  O.  Ft.  Lisbon,  III  
Dropped  per  certificate  of  expenditures  

6 

June  30 

Dropped  per  report  of  survey  

7 

June  31 

Dropped  per  approved  inventory  and  inspection  report    

Taken  up  as  found,  etc  ;  

Totals. 


•Remaining  on  hand  to  be  accounted  for  on  next  return . 


*NOTE.  — When  there  is  nothing  to  be  entered  on  this  linecross  out  these  words. 

The  form  below  illustrates  the  method  to  be  followed  in  preparing 
a  register  of  vouchers  on  Form  No.  18 — Cover,  when  a  complete  trans- 
fer of  accountability  occurs: 

Form  No.  18— Cover. 


Nos.  of 
vouchers. 

Dates. 

Register  of  -vouchers,  period  ended  June  30,  1917. 

Received  from,  or  issued  to:  (Give  name,  rank,  command,  and  station,  in  every 
instance.* 

1917. 

Feb.     1 

*Kecoived  from  im-decessor,  Lt.  John  Doe,  21st  Inf.,  Ft.  Bailey,  Ky  

1 
2 

Feb.   10 
Apr.  12 

Keceivedfrom  Major  Jno.  Smith,  Ord.  Dept..  Rockford  Arsenal,  N'.  V  «.  . 
Received  from  Lt.  Thos.  Brown,  2&th  Inf.,  Ft.  Roberts,  Wyo  

3 

May   IX 

Is.suod  toCapt.  John  Jones,  12th  Cavy.,  Columbia  Bks.,  Mo  

4 

May   29 

Received  from  I-t.  Jas.  Williams,  C.  A.  C.,O.  O.  Ft.  Lisbon,  III. 

6 

June  2!) 

Dropjied  per  certificate  of  expenditures  

6 

June  30 

Dropped  r*r  report  of  survey  

7 

Juno  30 

Dropped  per  approved  inventory  and  inspection  report  

Taken  tip  as  found,  etc  '  

June  30 

•Transferred  to  successor,  Copt.  John  Davis,  20th  Infty.,  U.  8.  A.         .                

Totals. 


•NOTE.— When  there  is  nothing  to  be  entered  on  this  line  cross  out  these  words. 


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The  method  of  preparing  the  register  of  vouchers  on  Form  Xo.  18 — 
Cover — B,  varies  but  slightly  from  the  above  and  as  it  is  full}*  described 
in  the  instructions  printed  on  the  back  of  that  form,  a  separate  illus- 
tration is  not  considered  necessary. 

The  form  below  illustrates  the  method  to  be  followed  in  making 
appropriate  entries  on  an  inside  sheet  or  page  of  the  return  made  on 
Form  Xo.  18  when  no  complete  transfer  of  accountability  occurs: 


Form  No.  IS— IX— 1  A. 
Class  IX.    Section  1.    (Authorized  by  the  Secretary  of  War  August  If,  1906.) 


Page—. 


Nos.  of 
vouchers. 

1.  Infantry  equipments  and  their  components. 

1 

Blanket 
roll 
straps, 
sets. 

2 

Can- 
teens, 
tin. 

8 

Canteen 
haver- 
sack 
straps. 

4 

Canteen 
straps, 
web. 

5 

Cartridge 
belts, 
woven, 
with 
loops, 
cal.  .30, 
infantry, 
blue. 

Cartridge 
belts, 
woven, 
with 
loops, 
cal.  .30, 
infantry, 
gray. 

7 

Cartridge 
belts, 
wove  t, 
cal.  .oO, 
infantry, 
morlef 
of  1903. 

8 

Cartridge 
belt 
sus- 
penders. 

Received. 

1 

Received. 

I 

i 

1 

| 

Issued. 

g 

1 

Received. 

•d 

1 
K 

1 
s 

1 

I 

On  hand  from 
last  return.  . 
1... 

36 

34 
12 

34 
12 

.... 

35 

.  ..  . 



.... 

...... 

--•? 

31 

.  ... 

32 

.... 

2.... 

10 

10 

! 

4  '.... 

4 

3 

Total... 

On  hand  to  be 
a  c  c  o  tinted 
for  on  next 
return  

36 

46 

10 

46 

10 

85 

36 

35 

36 

36 

36 

35 

35 

35 

The  form  below  illustrates  the  method  to  be  followed  in  making 
appropriate  entries  on  an  inside  sheet  or  page  of  the  return  made 
on  Form  No.  18,  when  a  complete  transfer  of  accountability  occurs 
between  officers  accountable  for  ordnance  property  other  than  com- 
manding officers  of  field  ordnance  depots,  coast  defense,  or  post 
ordnance  ollicers. 


73 


Form  No.  ig— IX— 1  A. 
Class  I X.    Section  1.    (Authorized  by  the  Secretary  of  War  August  14,  19OI.) 


Page—. 


Nos.  of 
vouchers. 

1.  Infantry  equipments  u;i  1  their  components. 

1 

Blanket 
roll 
straps, 
sets. 

1 

Can- 
teens, 
tin. 

8 

Canteen 
haver- 
sack 
straps. 

4 

Canteen 
straps, 
web. 

5 

Cartridge 
belts, 
woven, 
with 
loops, 
cal.  .30, 
Infantry, 
tlue. 

Cartridge 
belts, 
woven, 
with 
loops, 
cal.  .30, 
Infantry, 
gray- 

7 

Cartridge 
belts, 
woven, 
cal.  .30, 
Infantrv, 
model 
of  1903. 

g 

cartridge 
belt 
sus- 
penders. 

Received. 

1 

Received. 

i 

i 

| 

1 

•i 

• 

1 

at 

| 

i 

i 

Received. 
Issued. 

On  hand  from 
last  return.  . 
1 

36 



34 
12 

.... 

34 
12 

.... 

35 

.:.. 



— 



.... 

31 

.... 

32  .... 

3 

in 

10 

4 

4 

3  .... 

36 

3ft 

m 

35 

35 

36 

Total.  .  . 

Onhandtobe 
accounted 
for  on  next 
return  ...... 

36 

36 

-.~  " 

46 

46 

46 

"-u-V_-        ' 

46 

r-'s-.T- 

35 

35 

.1     ,         ; 

-- 

35 

35 

35      35 

The  form  below  illustrates  ih«  method  to  be  followed  in  making 
the  appropriate  entries  on  an  inside  sheet  or  page  of  the  return 
when  a  complete  transfer  is  made  by  the  commanding  officer  of  a 
field  ordnance  depot,  a  coast  defense  ordnance  officer,  a  post  ord- 
nance officer,  or  an  inspector  of  ordnance. 


IE62 
frf* 

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The  forms  below  illustrate  the  methods  to  be  followed  in  executing 
certificates  on  the  inside  of  the  back  of  Form  No.  18-Cover,  to  cover 
a  complete  transfer: 

(1) 

*  I  CERTIFY  that  all  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  enumerated  on  this  return  as 
transferred  to  Captain  John  Davis ,  Q.  M.  C.,  U.  S,  A.,  were  actually  turned  over  by 
me  to  this  officer,  on  the  30th  day  of  June,  1917. 

RICHARD  DOE, 
Capt.,Q.  M'.  C.,  U.S.  A. 

(2) 

*  I  CEBTTPY  that  all  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  enumerated  on  this  return 
as  transferred  to  Capt.  John  Davis,  Q.  M.  C.,  U.  S.  A.,  were  this  30th  day  of  June,  1917, 
received  by  me. 

JOHN  DAVIS, 
Capt.,Q.  M.  C.,  U.S.A. 

(3) 

I  CERTIFY  that  the  foregoing  return  exhibits  a  correct  statement  of  the  ordnance  and 
ordnance  stores  in  my  charge  during  the  period  ended  June  30th,  1917, f  and  that  I 
have  made  a  careful  inventory  of  the  various  quantities  of  small-arms  ammunition 
for  which  I  am  accountable,  and  have  taken  up  on  my  return  all  surplus  ammunition 
on  hand,  and  that  said  return  shows  the  actual  quantities  of  small-arms  ammunition 
on  hand  at  the  end  of  the  period  for  which  it  is  rendered. 

RICHARD  DOE, 
Capt.,  Q.  M.  C.,  U.S.A. 
1  Quartermaster  at  Ft.  Bailey,  Ky. 
Station:  Fort  Bailey,  Ky. 
June  SOth,  1917. 

% 

*The  above  certificates  ffir  transfer  of  property  will  only  be  used  when  a  complete  transfer  of  property 
occurs,  as  provided  by  par.  676,  Army  Regulations,  1910,  and  at  no  other  time  and  for  no  other  purpose. 
When  the  transfer  of  property  is  effected  in  this  manner,  both  certificates  jnust  be  filled  out  on  the  return 
of  the  transferring  officer,  and  the  certificate  No.  3  will  also  be  signed  by  the  transferring  officer. 

f  The  remaining  part  of  this  certificate  is  not  required  from  governors  of  States  accountable  for  small-arms 
ammunition. 

J  Here  state  capacity  in  which  serving,  as  "Comdg.  Q.  M.  Detach.,  Ft.  Niagara,  N.  Y,"  "Comdg.  H.  C. 
Detach.,  Ft.  Niagara,  N,  Y.,"  etc. 

The  form  below  illustrates  the  method  to  be  followed  in  executing 
the  certificates  on  the  inside  of  the  back  of  Form  No.  18-Cover^B 
to  cover  complete  transfers. 

*I  certify  that  all  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  enumerated  on  this  return  as 
transferred  to  (apt.  Jno.  Davis,  Twenty-first  Infantry,  were  actually  turned  over  by 
me  to  thia  otlicor  on  the  20th  day  of  January,  1912. 

W.  S.  POPE, 

Capt.,  C.  A.  C. 
2. 

*I  certify  that  all  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  enumerated  on  this  return  as 
transferred  to  Capt.  Jno.  Davis,  Twenty-first  Infantry,  were  on  this  20th  day  of  Janu- 
ary, 1912,  received  by  me. 

JNO.  DAVIS, 
Capt.,  1 1st  Inf. 


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3. 

*I  certify  that  all  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  enumerated  on  this  return  as 
transferred  to  Lieut.  Jno.  Doe,  First  Infantry,  were  actually  turned  over  by  me  to 
this  officer  on  the  18th  day  of  February,  1912. 

JNO.  DAVIS, 
Capt.,  21st  Inf. 

*I  certify  that  all  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  enumerated  on  this  return  as 
transferred  to  Lieut.  Jno.  Doe,  First  Infantry,  were  this  18th  day  of  February,  1912, 
received  by  me. 

JNO.  DOE, 
Lieut.,  1st  Inf. 
5. 

*I  certify  that  all  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  enumerated  on  this  return  as 
transferred  to  Capt.  F.  Smith,  Nineteenth  Infantry,  were  actually  turned  over  by 
me  to  this  officer  on  the  14th  day  of  May,  1912. 

JOHN  DOE, 

Lieut.,  1st  Inf. 
6. 

*I  certify  that  all  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  enumerated  on  this  return  as 
transferred  to  Capt.  F.  Smith,  Nineteenth  Infantry,  were  this  14th  day  of  May,  1912, 
received  by  me. 

F.  SMITH, 
Capt.,  19th  Inf. 
7. 

I  certify  that  the  foregoing  return  exhibits  a  correct  statement  of  the  ordnance  and 
ordnance  stores  in  my  charge  during  the  period  ended  June  30,  1912,  and  that  I  have 
made  a  careful  inventory-  of  the  various  quantities  of  small-arms  ammunition  for 
which  I  am  accountable,  and  have  taken  up  on  my  return  all  surplus  ammunition 
on  hand,  and  that  said  return- shows  the  actual  quantities  of  small-arms  ammunition 
on  hand  at  the  end  of  (h^>  }>errod  for  which  it  is  rendered. 

F.  SMITH, 

Capt.,  19th  Inf.,  Ordnance  Officer. 
Station:  Fort  Crook    Ne'or.   July  1,  1912. 

*The  above  certificates  for  transfer  of  property  will  only  be  used  when^a  complete  transfer  of  property 
occurs,  as  provided  by  paragraph  676,  Army  Regulations,  1910,  and  at  no  other  time  and  for  no  other 
purpose. 

NOTE.— When  the  first  transfer  of  property  occurs,  certificates  Nos.  1  and  2  must  be  filled  out  and  duly 
signed  on  the  return.  When  a  second  transfer  occurs  during  the  same  semiannual  accounting  period, 
certificates  Nos.  3  and  4  must  be  filled  out  and  duly  signed,  and  in  case  a  third  transfer  occurs  during  the 
same  period  certificates  Nos.  5  and  6  will  be  filled  out  and  duly  signed.  Tf  more  than  three  changes  of 
accountable  officers  occur  during  one  semiannual  accounting  period,  tt'?n  the  necessary  certificates  will 
be  made  out  and  attached  between  certificates  Nos.  6  and  7. 

Certificate  No.  7  must  be  filled  out  and  duly  signed  by  the  officer  who  renders  the  return  at  the  end  of  the 
accounting  period. 

210.  The  vouchers  described  and  referred  to  in  the  preceding  par- 
agraphs of  these  regulations  authorizing  entries  on  a  return  are  of  two 
kinds,  namely,  the  first  kind,  which  charges  an  officer  with  account- 
ability for  the  articles  described  thereon;  and  the  second  kind,  which 
relieves  him  from  accountability  for  such  articles.  Vouchers  of  the 
first  kind  are  known  as  RECEIPT  VOUCHEES  and  the  second  kind  as 
ISSUE  VOUCHERS. 


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211.  The  receipt  and  issue  vouchers  pertaining  to  the  semiannual 
return,  first  division,  rendered  by  the  commanding  officers  of  arsenals 
and  ordnance  depots  are  numbered,  respectively,  in  sequence  for  each 
semiannual  accounting  period,  and  the  voucher  numbers  will  be  en- 
tered in  the  lower  right-hand  corner  of  the  voucher,  unless  other  places 
are  designated  for  the  purpose.     The  receipt  and  issue  vouchers  per- 
taining to  the  semiannual  return,  second  division,  rendered  by  coast 
defense  ordnance  officers,  and  to  other  semiannual  returns  are  num- 
bered in  sequence  for  each  accounting  period,  irrespective  of  whether 
they  are  receipt  or  issue  vouchers.     The  vouchers  pertaining  to  the 
semiannual  return,  second  division,  rendered  by  commanding  officers 
of  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots,  and  to  the  semiannual  return,  first 
division,  rendered  by  coast  defense  ordnance  officers,  are  numbered 
from  1  on  indefinitely,  irrespective  of   the  accounting  period,  and 
these  numbers  will  have  the  notation  "2nd  D."  or  "1st  D."  placed 
after  them  to  distinguish  the  voucher  from  those  pertaining  to  other 
returns.     When  a  voucher  covers  a  transfer  of  property,  the  form 
provides  for  entering  the  voucher  numbers  pertaining  to  the  issuing 
and  receiving  officers'  returns,  and  entries  of  these  numbers  will  be 
made  by  the  officers  rendering  the  returns.     When,  therefore,  an 
officer  makes  an  issue  of  ordnance  property  covered  by  a  voucher 
providing  for  the  entry  of  such  voucher  numbers,  he  will  enter  on 
the  invoice  and  receipt  vouchers  the  number  that  her  will  give  the 
receipt  voucher  when  it  shall  have  been  returned  to  him;  similarly, 
the  receiving  officer  will  enter  on  the  receipt  which  he  will  return  to 
the  issuing  officer  the  number  that  he  will  give  the  invoice  as  a  voucher 
to  his  return. 

When  vouchers,  such  as  the  abstract  of  transfers  or  certain  certifi- 
cates, are  both  RECEIPT  and  ISSUE  vouchers,  they  shall  be  numbered  as 
such,  but  will  be  filed  with  the  receipt  vouchers.  These  vouchers  will 

be  numbered  as  follows:  Receipt  voucher  No. ;  issue  voucher 

No The  absence  of  these  vouchers  from  the  file  of  issue 

vouchers  will  be  accounted  for  as  in  the  case  of- other  absent  vouchers. 

212.  The  receipt  vouchers  submitted  with  the  semiannual  return, 
first  division,  rendered  by  the  commanding  officers  of  arsenals  and 
depots,  are  required  to  be  fastened  securely  together  at  the  top  in 
piles  of  suitable  size  arranged  in  the  order  of  their  numbers;  issue 
vouchers  are  required  to  be  secured  in  a  similar  manner.     When 
vouchers  do  n6t  accompany  the  return  or  can  not  be  piled  to  advan- 
tage, a  sheet  will  be  inserted  in  the  proper  pile,  and  on  this  sheet  a 
reference  will  be  made  to  the  missing  voucher,  and  the  sheet  will  be 
given  the  same  voucher  number  as  the  voucher. 

The  presence  of  the  sheet  in  the  pile  accounts  for  the  missing 
voucher.  Each  pile  of  vouchers  is  secured  by  top  and  bottom  card- 
board binders.  The  bottom  binder  (Form  No.  25)  is  alike  for  vouch- 


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ers  pertaining  to  all  returns,  but  the  top  binders  are  different ;  those 
for  the  returns  rendered  by  commanding  officers  of  arsenals  and  ord- 
nance depots  are  designated  as  Form  No.  22.  Vouchers  submitted 
with  the  semiannual  returns  of  the  commanding  officers  of  field  ord- 
nance depots,  coast-defense  ordnance  officers  (2d  division),  and  ord- 
nance officers  of  recruit  depots  are  also  required  to  be  secured  in 
similar  piles,  except  that  in  these  cases  the  receipt  and  issue  vouchers 
will  be  secured  in  the  same  pile,  and  for  this  purpose  the  bottom 
binder  (Form  No.  25)  will  be  used  in  each  case.  The  commanding 
officers  of  field  ordnance  depots  will  use  the  top  binder  (Form  No.  22) , 
referred  to  above.  Top  binders  for  the  use  of  coast  defense  ordnance 
officers  are  designated  as  Form  No.  23,  and  those  for  ordnance  officers 
of  recruit  depots  as  Form  No.  24. 

Vouchers  submitted  by  other  officers  or  custodians  of  ordnance 
property  will  be  fastened  together  in  their  numerical  order  by  a  tape 
or  cord  passing  through  the  openings  provided  at  the  head  of  each 
voucher  for  the  purpose,  and  will  be  so  submitted  with  the  returns. 
When  vouchers  have  not  such  openings,  they  will  be  perforated  for 
the  same  purpose. 

213.  Vouchers  to  the  semiannual  return,  first  division,  rendered  by 
commanding  officers  of  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots;  semiannual  re- 
turn, second  division,  rendered  by  coast  defense  ordnance  officers, 
and  semiannual  return  rendered  by  commanding  officers  of  field  ord- 
nance depots,  post  ordnance  officers,  and  United  States  property  and 
disbursing  officers  of  the  States,  etc.,  will  have  noted  on  them,  oppo- 
site the  descriptions  of  the  several  articles,  the  page  number  of  the 
return  on  which  the  entries  are  made,  in  order  to  facilitate  the  audit- 
ing of  such  vouchers. 

214.  All  vouchers  submitted  by  commanding  officers  of  arsenals, 
ordnance  depots,  and  field  ordnance  depots,  except  the  abstract  of 
purchases,  report  of  operations,  abstract  of  transfers,  and  the  abstract 
of  funds  received  from  authorized  sales  may  be  executed  in  the  name 
of  the  accountable  officer  by  a  subordinate  officer  over  his  signature, 
as  "A.  B.  Jon^s,  Lieut.  Col.,  Ord.  Dept.,  U.  S.  A.,  by  Capt.  S.  T. 
Smith,  Ord.  Dept.,  U.  S.  A."     The  vouchers  covering  receipts  and 
issues  of  ordnance  property  at  arsenals  or  ordnance  depots  and  field 
ordnance  depots  will  be  executed  in  the  name  of  the  accountable  offi- 
cer by  a  subordinate  officer  who  has  immediate  charge  of  the  receipts 
and  issues ;  but  vouchers  covering  the  expenditure  of  property  may 
be  executed  by  the  officer  in  his  own  name,  having  immediate  control 
of  such  expenditures. 

Vouchers  submitted  with  returns  rendered  by  other  officers  or  cus- 
todians of  ordnance  property  are  required  to  be  executed  by  them  in 
their  own  names,  except  that  during  the  temporary  absence  of  a  per- 
manent commander  of  an  organization  he  may  designate  the  officer 


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in  temporary  command  to  execute  the  vouchers  in  the  name  of  the 
permanent  commander;  but  this  authority  will  be  filed  with  the  re- 
turn with  which  the  vouchers  so  executed  have  been  submitted. 

215.  Articles  will  be  described  on  the  vouchers  in  accordance  with 
their  proper  nomenclature,  and  the  description  will  be  arranged  by 
part,  class,  and  section,  except  in  the  case  of  those  vouchers  the 
preparation  of  which  is  governed  by  special  instructions.     When 
the  classification  of  articles  at  an  ordnance  establishment  is  different 
from  that  required  to  be  followed  by  an  officer  to  whom  property  is 
invoiced,  it  is  required  that  the  latter  classification  shall  be  followed 
on  the  vouchers  .covering  the  transfer.    Reference  to  the  classification 
of  ordnance  property  need  not  be  made  on  the  statements  of 'ex- 
penditures, unless  it  is  so  desired  by  an  accountable  officer. 

216.  When  a  voucher  pertaining  to  an  officer's  return  has  been  lost 
it  will  be  replaced  by  a  certified  statement,  or  an  affidavit,  setting 
forth  all  the  facts  in  the  case.     In  extreme  cases,  when  it  is  found 
that  all  the  vouchers  pertaining  to  a  return  have  been  lost  and  copies 
of  them  can  not  be  obtained,  the  accountable  officer  is  required  to  at 
once  make  an  inventory  of  all  the  ordnance  property  on  hand  and 
have  the  quantity  of  each  of  the  different  kinds  of  the  articles  found 
to  be  on  hand  entered  or  taken  up  on  tne  return,  and  submit  with 
the  return  an  affidavit  briefly  setting  forth  the  facts  in  the  case  as  to 
why  the  vouchers  are  not  with  the  return  and  that  the  property 
taken  up  on  the  return  covers  the  entire  quantities  of  the  various 
articles  of  ordnance  property  found  to  be  on  hand. 

Ordinarily,  an  accountable  officer  may  obtain  duplicate  invoices 
of  all  the  property  sent  him,  and  from  the  records  in  the  Office  of 
the  Chief  of  Ordnance  a  copy  of  any  return  rendered  to  the  Chief  of 
Ordnance  can  always  be  obtained,  from  which,  together  with  the 
accountable  officer's  knowledge  of  the  property  which  may  have  been 
expended  or  otherwise  disposed  of  from  the  property  for  which  he 
was  accountable  during  the  period,  very  accurate  returns  should  be 
rendered,  notwithstanding  the  loss  of  the  vouchers. 

217.  The  semiannual  return,  first  division,  rendered  by  command- 
ing officers  of  arsenals  and  of  ordnance  depots,  on  which  the  articles 
at  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots  embraced  in  the  first  division  are 
accounted  for,  is  a  current  record  of  all  transactions  affecting  the 
quantities  or  conditions  of  such  articles,  or  in  any  other  way  affecting 
the  accountability  therefor. 

The  register  of  vouchers  and  the  various  forms  constituting  the 
inside  sheets  of  the  return  will  be  arranged  in  a  flat-opening,  loose- 
leaf  binder  or  binders,  the  register  of  vouchers  forming  the  first  part 
of  the  return,  and  the  forms  arranged  according  to  the  part,  class, 
and  section,  the  second  and  remaining  part  of  the  return.  The 
arrangement  of  the  register  of  vouchers  and  the  remaining  inside 


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sheets  of  the  return  will  he  based  on  the  experience  ohtained  in  the 
preparation  of  the  return  for  the  preceding  accounting  period,  and 
the  process  of  arranging  the  return  will  bo  conducted  at  such  time 
that  it  will  be  in  condition  for  the  making  of  entries  at  the  beginning 
of  the  accounting  period  irrespective  of  the  condition  of  the  preceding 
return.  The  front  and  back  covers  of  the  return  will  be  omitted  at 
this  time  from  the  binder.  All  records  pertaining  to  the  return, 
except  those  on  the  covers,  will  be  made  by  an  indelible  pencil. 

The  register  of  vouchers  and  the  remaining  inside  sheets  of  the 
return  provide  for  making  entries  on  the  right-hand  page  only,  in 
order  that  when  they  are  arranged  in  duplicate,  carbon  copies  ot  all 
records  may  be  readily  obtained.  When  the  number  of  printed 
headings  pertaining  to  any  form  is  largely  in  excess  of  the  actual 
requirements,  such  sheets  will  be  removed  or  modified  so  as  to  con- 
dense the  return  as  much  as  practicable.  When  sheets  with  blank 
headings  are  employed  exclusively  to  cover  accountability  for  articles 
for  which  printed  headings  are  not  furnished,  the  headings  will  be 
arranged  alphabetically  for  each  section  of  the  different  classes. 
The  inside  sheets  containing  the  records  of  the  quantities  of  the 
different  articles  on  hand  will  be  paged;  the  register  of  vouchers  need 
not  be  paged.  ITie  inserting  of  inside  sheets  with  blank  headings  at 
this  time  in  excess  of  the  actual  requirements  is  prohibited  since  it 
might  subsequently  result  in  the  removal  of  these  leaves  and  a  con- 
sequent break  in  the  sequence  of  the  page  numbers. 

When  the  return  for  the  previous  accounting  period  shall  have 
been  completed,  the  entries  of  the  quantities  brought  forward  from 
this  return  will  be  made  so  as  to  show  the  quantities  which  are  new, 
cleaned  and  repaired,  unserviceable,  and  in  current  service,  as  indi- 
cated on  the  various  forms  of  the  return;  these  entries  will  generally 
be  made  subsequent  to  the  entries  authorised  by  vouchers  based  on 
transactions  since  the  beginning  of  the  accounting  period.  As  trans- 
actions occur  affecting  the  accountability  of  the  articles  reported  on 
this  return,  the  vouchers  authorizing  the  transactions  will  be  num- 
bered, and  entries  of  the  numbers  in  sequence  and  a  description  of 
the  voucher  will  be  made  on  the  register  of  vouchers  in  the  columns 
provided  for  the  purpose;  but  the  page  numbers  of  the  return  on  which 
the  entries  are  made  wiU  not  be  entered  on  the  register.  When  the 
transaction  is  an  issue  to  an  .officer  or  agent  of  the  Government,  the 
voucher  will  be  described  by  giving  the  name  or  official  title  of  the 
receiving  officer;  when  the  transaction  is  a  receipt  from  an  officer  or 
agent  of  the  Government,  the  voucher  will  be  described  by  giving 
the  name  or  official  title  of  the  issuing  officer.  When  transactions 
are  governed  by  such  vouchers  as  abstract  of  purchases,  reports  of 
operations,  abstracts  of  funds  received  from  authorized  sales,  ab- 
stracts of  transfers,  statements  of  expenditures,  etc.,  these  vouchers 


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will  be  described  in  the  column  for  tho  name  of  the  receiving  or  issuing 
officer,  as — 

Abstract  of  purchases  r'or (naming  the  month). 

Expended  in  the  manufacture  of (briefly  describing  the  articles). 

Shop  expense*  during  the  month  of (naming  the  month). 

The  entries  authorized  by  the  different  vouchers  affecting  the 
accountability  of  the  articles  will  be  made  on  the  several  sheets  of 
the  return  by  first  entering  the  voucher  numbers  in  sequence  in  their 
appropriate  columns  and  at  the  same  time  the  remaining  entries  on 
the  lines  with  the  corresponding  voucher  numbers  and  the  appropri- 
ate columns  under  the  headings  of  the  articles  affected  by  the  trans- 
actions. When  the  transaction  is  a  receipt  of  articles  of  ordnance 
property,  the  voucher  is  a  receipt  voucher,  and  its  number  will  appear 
in  the  marginal  column  headed  " Receipts"  on  the  several  sheets  on 
which  the  articles  are  .accounted  for,  and  the  entries  of  the  quantities 
of  the  different  articles  received  will  bo  entered  in  the  column  headed 
"Receipts"  under  the  heading  descriptive  of  the  article  so  received. 
When  the  transaction  is  an  issue  of  articles  of  ordnance  property,  a 
like  method  will  be  followed,  except  that  the  entries  will  be  in  the 
columns  headed  "Issues."  Entries  will  be  made  so  as  to  utilize  the 
blank  spaces  to  the  fullest  extent  so  that  there  will  be  no  blank 
horizontal  lines  on  any  page  between  entries  authorized  by  vouchers; 
but  the  entries  authorized  by  a  receipt  voucher  and  those  authorized  by 
an  issue  voucher  will  not  be  made  on  the  same  line  of  a  sheet  of  the 
return.  Since  the  return  is  required  to  be  a  current  record  of  all 
transactions  entered  on  it,  entries  pertaining  to  the  vouchers  of  a 
daily  character  will  usually  be  made  in  the  return  on  the  following 
day;  those  pertaining  to  vouchers  of  a  monthly  character,  such  as 
abstracts  of  funds  received  from  authorized  sales,  will  be  made  in  the 
return  not  later  than  the  20th  of  the  month  following  that  to  which  the 
voucher  pertains.  The  numbering  of  the  vouchers  and  the  making  of 
tho  entries  authorized  by  them  will  be  practically  simultaneous 
transactions. 

As  all  entries  showing  either  receipts  or  issues  of  an  article  will 
appear  in  the  same  column,  whether  they  are  new,  cleaned  and 
repaired,  or  unserviceable,  the  condition  of  the  quantities  of  the  arti- 
cles so  entered  will  be  distinguished  from  one  another  by  placing  a 
line  under  the  entries  affecting  cleaned  and  repaired  quantities,  as 
26;  and  by  inclosing  in  a  circle  entries  affecting  unserviceable  quan- 
tities, as  Qj|W.  When  quantities  of  the  same  article  are  carried  in 
stock  and  also  used  in  current  service,  transactions  affecting  the  latter 
will  be  indicated  by  a  triangle  about  the  entry,  as  y$$v.  These 

instructions  do  not  pertain  to  entries  where  spaces  are  provided  for 
62290°—] 


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the  entering  of  articles  as  "new,"  "cleaned  and  repaired,"  '  unserv- 
iceable," and  "in  current  use." 

When  during  the  preparation  of  the  return  additional  inside  sheets- 
are  introduced  to  provide  for  accountability  for  articles  not  heretofore 
shown  thereon,  such  inside  sheets  will  receive  the  page  numbers  of 
the  sheets  which  they  immediately  succeed,  followed  by  letters  to 
identify  them,  as  26rt,  266,  35a,  49a,  etc.  The  method  of  paging  illus- 
trated indicates  that  inside  sheets  having  page  numbers  26a,  266, 
eta,,  were  introduced  after  the  inside  sheet  having  the  page  number 
26,  etc. 

When  entries  appear  on  all  lines  of  a  page,  additional  leaves  with- 
out headings  Kail  be  inserted  to  provide  for  continuing  the  record  and 
to  save  the  writing  in  of  headings;  and  the  entries  will  be  continued 
on  these  additional  sheets.  The  quantities  of  the  articles  reported 
on  each  sheet  will,  however,  be  footed  and  brought  forward  to  the 
next  additional  sheet:  but  the  records  pertaining  to  the  final  account- 
ability will  only  be  entered  on  the  last  additional  sheet.  These  addi- 
tional leaves  will  not  be  given  separate  page  numbers,  but  are  consid- 
ered as  having  the  same  page  numbers  as  the  sheets  on  which  the 
headings  appear  and  with  which  they  form  a  continuous  record. 

When  all  the  entries  have  been  made  on  a  sheet  or  sheets  having 
the  same  page  number  for  a  semiannual  period,  the  various  columns 
will  be  footed  and  the  appropriate  entries  made  on  the  last  sheets  in 
the  spaces  provided  for  the  purpose,  so  as  to  show  distinctly  the 
accountability  at  the  close  of  the  period. 

The  return  for  the  second  semiannual  period  of  a  fiscal  year  will  give 
on  the  last  sheet  of  each  page  hi  the  proper  spaces  the  actual  inventory 
of  the  various  articles  on  hand  at  the  close  of  the  year,  with  their 
values.  These  values  will  be  given  for  serviceable  and  unserviceable 
articles,  respectively;  *  the  serviceable  articles  being  considered  as 
comprising  new,  cleaned  and  repaired,  ami  those  in  current  service. 
As  the  forms  do  not  provide  specifically  for  the  entering  of  the  unit 
prices  of  the  different  articles,  these  prices  will  be  entered  directly 
underneath  the  respective  headings  descriptive  of  the  articles.  In 
the  absence  of  specific  instructions  to  the  contrary,  *no  difference  in 
value  will  be  stated  for  new  and  cleaned  and  repaired  articles  for 
issue  to  the  service.  The  value  of  the  unserviceable  articles  will  be 
determined  by  the  accountable  officer.  When  the  quantities  to  be 
accounted  for  as  then  ascertained  and  the  inventory  differ,  the  differ- 
ences will  be  noted  as  provided  for  on  the  return;  figures  representing 
surpluses  being  indicated  by  the  plus  sign,  and  those  representing 
shortages  by  the  minus  sign.  All  surpluses  will  be  taken  up  on  the 
return,  using  the  appropriate  certificate  as  a  voucher  for  the  purpose, 
and  all  deficiencies  will  be  dropped  from  the  return  on  a  proper  report 
of  survey  or  other  satisfactory  voucher.  When  the  inventory  indicates 


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such  differences,  the  accountability  then  stated  on  the  return  will 
therefore  be  corrected  to  agree  with  the  inventory.  Such  crirrections 
will  not  be  made  on  the  subsequent  returns.  The  entries  showing 
the  surpluses  and  deficiencies  will  be  retained  on  the  return,  since 
they  furnish  the  appropriate  records  giving  the  degree  of  correctness 
of  the  accountability  revealed  by  the  entries  made  on  the  return 
prior  to  the  taking  of  the  inventory. 

When  all  the  entries  required  to  be  made  on  the  several  sheets  of 
the  return  have  been  completed,  the  sheets  in  which  the  original 
entries  were  made  will  be  separated  from  those  on  which  the  carbon 
records  were  made;  the  sheets  containing  the  original  entries  will 
then  be  arranged  as  they  were  in  the  binder,  or  binders,  and  placed 
in  the  front  and  back  covers  of  the  return;  the  front  and  back  covers 
will  be  filled  in  by  pen  and  ink  as  indicated  and  the  certificate  of  cor- 
rectness of  the  return  will  be  signed  by  the  accountable  officer.  The 
return,  including  the  covers,  will  now  be  secured  in  the  canvas  binder 
prescribed  for  the  purpose  by  means  of  brass  posts  forming  part  of 
the  canvas  binder  which  pass  through  the  openings  in  the  covers  and 
sheets  of  the  return.  When  the  original  and  retained  returns  shall 
have  been  secured  to  the  canvas  binder  and  completed  as  required 
by  this  paragraph,  the  former  will  be  ready  for  transmission  to  the 
Chief  of  Ordnance  and  the  other  for  file  AS  part  of  the  arsenal  records. 
The  canvas  binder  prescribed  for  permanently  securing  the  return 
may  be  procured  of  different  dimensions  in  order  that  it  may  corre- 
spond to  the  thicknesses  of  returns  rendered  by  the  different  arsenals 
and  ordnance  depots. 

218.  The  semiannual  return,  second  division,  on  which  the  articles 
at  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots  embraced  in  the  second  division  are 
accounted  fpr,  is  a  semiannual  report  covering  the  status  of  the 
quantities,  conditions,  etc.,  of  the  articles  of  ordnance  property 
embraced  in  this  division.  But  the  various  record  cards,  which  are 
supplemental  parts  of  this  return,  are  req'uired  to  be  current  records 
of  all  transactions  affecting  the  quantities  or  conditions  of  the  articles 
reported  on  them. 

The  record  card  for  each  article  is  required  to  give  its  name,. 
classification,  disposition,  unit  cost,  and  if  practicable  the  date  of  its 
introduction  into  the  service.  The  disposition  of  the  article  refers  to 
whether  it  is  in  stock/or  issue  to  the  service,  or  whether  it  is  for  current 
service ;  if  an  article  has  been  procured  exclusively  for  current  service 
it  will  be  reported  as  in  current  service  even  if  it  is  in  stock.  For 
such  articles  as  buildings,  appurtenances  to  buildings,  components  of 
the  power  plant,  machines,  and  similar  articles,  in  current  service,  the 
annual  depreciation  as  a  percentage  of  the  lives  of  the  articles  will 
be  stated.  The  capacity  in  which  the  accountable  officer  is  serving 
wiH  be  given  at  the  bottom  of  each  card.  If  it  is  found  that  the 


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amount  of  the  annual  depreciation  of  an  article  is  in  error  it  may  be 
modified  at  any  time  by  the  responsible  omqer.  When  trophies  are 
accounted  for  on  record  cards,  they  will  be  fully  described  and  any 
inscription  found  on  them  will  be  stated.  If  practicable,  the  name 
of  the  officer  who  made  the  capture,  and  the  place  of  capture,  will  be 
stated.  As  the  number  of  transactions  in  trophies  is  limited,  the 
backs  of  the  record  cards  may  be  utilized  for  giving  the  additional 
detailed  information  herein  required. 

Whenever  a  transaction  occurs  affecting  the  quantities  or  condition 
of  any  of  the  articles  pertaining  to  this  division,  or  in  any  other  way 
affecting  the  accountability  therefor,  the  record  on  the  appropriate 
card  for  this  article  will  be  continued  to  give  the  date  of  the  trans- 
action, the  number  of  the  voucher  authorizing  it,  the  quantity  on 
hand  or  condition  resulting  from  the  transaction,  and  these  data  will 
be  certified  to  by  the  accountable  officer  placing  his  initials  in  the 
column  provided  for  the  purpose:  When  the  initials  of  the  account- 
able officer  are  stamped  in  this  column,  the  entry  will  be  verified  by 
the  subordinate  officer  immediately  responsible  for  the  transactions. 
The  record  cards  are  provided  with  only  one  column  for  the  entering 
of  the*  quantities  on  hand,  so  that  an  entry  will  not  be  made  directly 
of  the  quantity  shown  on  a  voucher,  but  the  actual  quantity  on  hand 
as  shown  by  the  previous  entry,  modified  by  the  quantity  stated  on 
the  voucher.  When  a  transaction  occurs  in  an  article  which  shows 
a  variation  in  the  cost  of  it,  the  cost  as  shown  by  the  transaction  will 
be  recorded  in  the  proper  colulan  and  on  the  line  descriptive  of  the 
transaction.  When  a  number  of  transactions  occur  in  these  articles 
during  a  month  the  appropriate  cards  on  which  the  changes  were 
made  will  be  mailed  -monthly  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance,  accompanied 
by  the  vouchers  on  which  the  transactions  were  based,  and  without 
letter  of  transmittal.  If  a  voucher  pertains  to  both  forms  of  returns, 
it  will  nevertheless  be  transmitted.  When  these  record  cards  shall 
have  been  audited  the  duplicate  cards  covering  accountability  for 
the  same  articles  on  file  in  the  Office  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  will  be 
returned  to  the  accountable  officer,  together  with  any  voucher  per- 
taining to  the  semiannual  return,  first  division.  On  receipt  of  these 
duplicate  cards  by  the  accountable  officer  he  is  required  to  continue 
the  records  on  them  so  that  they  will  agree  with  those  previously 
transmitted  and  on  file  in  the  Ordnance  Office.  It  may  be  found 
convenient  to  have  a  triplicate  set  of  cards  on  hand  at  the  different 
ordnance  establishments,  so  that  the  accountability  for  the  articles 
in  which  transactions  occurred  during  a  month  will  be  fully  provided 
for  during  the  interval  required  to  transmit,  audit,  and  return  the 
duplicate  cards. 

At  the  close  of  the  semiannual  period  the  accountable  officer  will 
furnish  the  CERTIFICATE  which  constitutes  the  semiannual  return, 


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second  division,  on  which,  he  will  relate  the  quantities  and  conditions 
of  the  articles  in  which  transactions  have  occurred  during  the  period 
and  state  that  for  the  remaining  articles  the  accountability  is  the  same 
as  at  the  close  of  .the  preceding  accounting  period.  This  certificate 
will  be  furnished  in  the  following  language: 

SEMIANNUAL  RETURN,  SECOND  DIVISION. 

Areenal, 

,19 

I  certify  that  the  quantities  and  conditions  of  the  articles  of  ordnance  property 
pertaining  to  the  SECOND  DIVISION  were  the  same  at  the  close  of  the  last  semiannual 
accounting  period*  as  they  were  at  the  close  of  the  previous  semiannual  accounting 
period,  except  in  the  case  of  the  following  articles  of  ordnance  property  in  which 
transactions  have  occurred  during  the  semiannual  period,  and  that  a  careful  inven- 
tory has  been  made  of  all  articles  on  hand  and  the  return  covers  the  actual  quantities 
of  each  of  the  different  articles  at  the  end  of  the  period  for  which  it  is  rendered. 

The  quantities  and  conditions  of  the  articles  in  which  transactions 
occurred  will  be  stated  immediately  below  the  above  form  of  certifi- 
cate, and  the  signature  of  the  accountable  officer  to  the  certificate 
will  be  placed  immediately  below  the  enumeration  of  the  articles  in 
which  transactions  have  occurred.  When  the  return  does  not  per- 
tain to  the  second  hah*  of  the  fiscal  year  the  clause  certifying  to  the 
taking  of  the  inventory  at  the  close  of  this  period  will  be  struck  out. 
A  duplicate  certificate  will  be  executed  to  constitute  the  retained 
return. 

When  surpluses  or  deficiencies  are  found  in  the  quantities  of  the 
articles  accounted  for  on  this  return  corrections  will  be  made  on  the 
appropriate  record  cards,  which  will  be  based  on  the  vouchers  re- 
quired for  the  purpose.  Since  such  corrections  of  the  record  cards 
involve  a  change  in  accountability  for  the  articles  reported  thereon, 
these  cards  are  required  to  be  transmitted  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance, 
as  in  case  of  any  other  transactions  affecting  the  accountability  of 
the  articles. 

The  various  returns  of  the  SECOND  DIVISION  of  ordnance  property 
and  the  record  cards  and  vouchers  pertaining  exclusively  thereto 
will  be  filed  at  each  ordnance  establishment,  so  as  to  provide  for  their 
safety  and  accessibility  at  all  times.  The  record  cards  will  be  filed 
in  suitable  drawers,  in  which  they  will  be  arranged  according  to  part, 
class,  and  section  of  thft  classification. 

When  the  transaction  in  any  article  of  ordnance  property  pertain- 
ing to  this  division  exhausts  the  quantity  previously  on  hand  the 
appropriate  record  card  is  no  longer  considered  a  live  card,  and  will 
be  filed  in  a  separate  drawer  wherein  such  inactive  cards  will  be  ar- 
ranged according'  to  their  classification.  If  a  transaction  subse- 
quently occurs  in  this  article,  the  same  card  will  be  again  filed  with 
the  live  cards  and  the  record  continued  thereon. 


86 

When  the  rec9rds  of  transactions  occupy  all  available  space  on  a 
card  an  additional  card  will  be  employed,  and  reference  will  be  made 
on  this  card  showing  that  the  records  thereon  are  a  continuation  of 
those  on  a  previous  card.  For  the  purpose  of  accountability  these 
two  cards,  and  any  additional  cards  that  may  be  found  necessary 
for  the  continuation  of  the  record,  will  be  considered  as  one  card. 

219.  After  the  completion  of  the  annual  inventory  at  arsenals  and 
ordnance  depots,  the  values  of  all  ordnance  property  on  hand  and 
accounted  for  on  the  two  forms  of  returns  will  be  summarized  and 
entered  on  the  inside  of  the  back  of  the  cover  of  the  semiannual 
return,  first  division.  These  values  will  be  summarized  under  the 
following  headings: 

Land $ 

Buildings  and  other  permanent  structures  for  manufacturing 
purposes . 

Buildings  and  other  permanent  structures  for  other  purposes. . . 


Total  real  estate ., '•; $ 

Power  plant,  machinery,  machine  tools,  fixtures,  and  other  articles  for 
manufacturing  purposes 

Machines,  tools,,  and  utensils,  and  ether  articles  for  other  purposes 

Ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  on  hand  for  issue 

Materials  undergoing  manufacture 

Ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  on  hand  for  experimental  purposes  exclu- 
Hively 

Obsolete  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  on  hand  for  issue  or  other  dispo- 
sition........ ...<....*.. 


Grand  total $ 

When  articles  of  ordnance  property  are  used  for  experimental  pur> 
poses  incidental  to  manufacturing  operations  at  an  ordniance  estab- 
lishment, they  will  be  considered  as  pertaining  to  the  manufacturing 
plant  and  so  reported  in  the  preceding  statement. 

220.  When  an  article  of  ordnance  property  is  a  component  of 
several  authorized  sets  of  articles  for  issue  to  the  service  the  account- 
ability for  this  article  will  be  found  under  several  headings  having  the 
same  nomenclature  and  under  different  classifications,  but  the  object 
of  the  accountability  in  such  cases  is  not  to  provide  specifically  for 
the  accounting  for  the  component,  but  for  the  sets  of  articles  to  which 
it  pertains.  A  similar  case  arises  when  an  article  is  a  component  of 
an  authorized  set  for  issue  to  the  service  and  is  also  used  in  current 
service. 

Since  the  classification  of  ordnance  property  depends  largely  upon 
its  application  in  service,  a  distinct  article  may  be  accounted  for 
under  more  than  one  class,  but  to  avoid  the  confusion  which  will 
result  from  such  accounting- it  is  required  that  the  entire  quantity  of 
the  article  shall  be  accounted  for  under  the  classification  wherein 


87 

the  greatest  number  of  transactions  in  this  article  will  be  likely  to 
occur.  Certain  paper  silhouettes  are  used  in  mobile-artillery  practice 
and  ulso  in  small-arms  practice,  and  the  accountability  for  these 
articles  will  be  provided  for  under  the  class  to  which  targets  for 
small-arms  practice  pertain,  provided  the  accountable  officer  is 
responsible  for  similar  articles  under  tliis  classification. 

When  articles  of  ordnance  property  procured  at  an  arsenal  or 
ordnance  depot  for  issue  to  the  service  are  also  used  in  current 
service,  they  will  bo  accounted  for  under  the  classification  to  which 
such  issues  to  the  service  pertain.  When  horse  equipments,  which 
are  articles  of  issue  to  the  service,  are  used  in  current  service,  they 
will  therefore  be  accounted  for  under  the  classification  to  which  horse 
equipments,  as  articles  of  issue,  pertain;  but  as  cleaning,  preserving, 
and  repairing  supplies  are  of  a  general  character  this  rule  will  not  be 
applied  to  them,  and  such  articles  when  used  in  current  service  will  be 
accounted  for  under  the  appropriate  classification  for  siu-li  articles. 

When  an  article  of  ordnance  property  is  incomplete  by  reason  of 
a  missing  part  which  is  not  listed  as  a  standard  component,  the 
incomplete  article  will  be  accounted  for  as  without  the  part.  But 
when  the  absence  of  the  part  from  the  article  is  only  temporary  a 
formal  change  in  the  heading  on  the  return  need  not  be  made,  and 
the  absence  of  the  part  will  be  accounted  for  by  a  footnote  to  the 
return,  giving  the  status  of  the  article,  and  this  footnote  will  be 
erased  on  the  return  of  the  missing  part. 

221.  When  it  is  desired   to   transfer  accountability  for  certain 
articles  of  ordnance  property  at  an  arsenal  or  ordnance  depot  from 
one  form  of  the  semiannual  return  to  the  other,  a  letter  will  be 
addressed  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance,  describing  the  quantities  and 
kinds  of  articles  and  the  forms  of  return  from  which  ajid  to  which  it 
is  desired  to  transfer  the  accountability.     In  case  the  application 
meets  with  the  approval  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance,  a  copy  of  this 
communication  and  of  the  approval  will  constitute  a  voucher  for  the 
purpose  of  making  the  desired  transfer. 

222.  (a)  When  a  commanding  officer  at  an  arsenal  or  other  ordnance 
station  is  succeeded  in  that  capacity  by  another,  the  transfer  of 
accountability  on   the   semiannual   return,   first,  division,   will  be 
made  by  footing  up  and  balancing  the  return  immediately  below 
the  last  transaction  on  each  page  of  the  return,  as  is  done  on  the 
termination  of  a  semiannual  period,  except  that  TRANSFERRED  TO 
-= will  be  substituted  for  the  words  "To 

(Hen  give  name  of  the  officer.) 

be  accounted  for/'  and  when  no  transactions  other  than  the  entries 
covering  property  "Brought  forward"  appear  on  a  page  of  the 
return,  the  page  will  not  be  footed  and  balanced,  as  indicated  above, 
but  a  slip  bearing  the  words  "TRANSFERRED  TO  " 

(Here  give  name  of  the  offloer  ) 


will  be  pasted  on  the  left-hand  margin  of  the  face  of  the  page  directly 
preceding  the  words  "Brought  forward,"  and  opposite  the  entries 
showing  the  articles  as  brought  forward  from  the  previous  rot  urn. 
The  following  statements  of  an  account  illustrate  the  methods  of 
stating  the  transfer  of  account  ability  on  the  return: 


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When  surpluses  ot  deficiences  are  found  on  transfer  of  the  property 
the  appropriate  vouchers  will  be  prepared  in  order  that  the  entries 
covering  the»  corrections  will  be-  made  on  the  return,  prior  to  those 
stating  the  transfer  of  accountability.  The  certificates  of  the  trans- 
ferring and  receiving  officers  will  be  completed  on  the  inside  of  the 
back  cover  of  the  return  as  indicated  by  the  forms  provided  for  the 


90 

purpose.  When  the  .certificate  of  the  receiving  officer  shall  have 
been  completed  the  outgoing  officer  will  be  relieved  from  accounta- 
bility for  the  property  embraced  in  the  FIRST  DIVISION,  and  the  return 
vriU  be  continued  as  if  no  transfer  of  accountability  had  taken  place. 
(6)  When  a  transfer  of  accountability  is  made  for  the  property 
embraced  in  the  SECOND  DIVISION  the  transferring  officer  will  trans- 
mit to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  the  duplicate  set  of  record  cards  on  file 
at  the  arsenal  or  depot,  accompanied  by  the  following;  certificate : 

I  certify  that  all  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  shown  op  hand  by  the  record 

cards  transmitted  herewith  have  this day  of  ......  been  transferred  by  me  to 

(naming  the  incoming  officer). 


Ord.  Dept.,  U.  S.  Army. 
Number  of  cards 

The  receipt  of  the  incoming  officer  will  be  stated  immediately 
below  the  preceding  certificate,  as  follows: 

I  certify  that  all  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  shown  on  hand  by  the  record 

cards  transmitted  herewith  have  been  received  by  me  from . .  (naming  the  officer), 

on  this day  of 


Ord.  Dept.,  U.  S.  Army. 
Number  of  cards  .... 

These  certificates  will  be  prepared  in  duplicate  and  one  set  will  be 
filed  at  the  arsenal  or  depot  where  the  property  is  located.  Each 
certificate  will  state  the  number  of  accompanying  record  cards. 

When  the  record  cards,  accompanied  by^the  preceding  certificates, 
shall  have  been  received  by  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  they  will  be  com- 
pared with  the  record  cards  in  the  Ordnance  Office,  and  in  case  they 
agree  the  outgoing  officer  will  be  relieved  from  further  accountability 
for  the  property  and  the  duplicate  set  of  record  cards  will  be  trans- 
mitted to  the  incoming  officer. 

When  surpluses  or  deficiencies  are  found  on  thejtransfer  of  property 
embraced  in  this  division  they  will  be  accounted  for  by  the  appro- 
priate vouchers  as  in  the  case  of  transfer  of  the  property  embraced  in 
the  FIRST  DIVISION;  but  it  will  first  be  necessary  for  the  outgoing 
officer  to  transmit  the  duplicate  set  of  record  cards  containing  the 
desired  corrections  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  for  audit.  When  the  set 
of  record  cards  previously  on  file  in  the  ordnance  office  shall  have  been 
returned  to  the  outgoing  office,  he  will  have  them  corrected  and 
returned  to  the"  ordnance  officer,  accompanied  by  his  own  certificate 
and 'that  of  the  receiving  officer. 

When  the  next  semiannual  return,  second  division,  shall  have 
been  rendered  by  the  incoming  officer,  the  certificate  forming  part  of 
this  return  will  be  modified  in  part  to  read  as  follows: 

I  certify  that  the  quantities  and  condition  of  the  articles  of  ordnance  property 
pertaining  to  the  SECOND  DIVISION  were  the  same  at  the  close  of  the  last  semiannual 
accounting  period  as  they  were  when  the  property  was  transferred  to  me  *  *  *. 


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(c)  When  ordnance  property  is  transferred  from  one  commanding 
officer  to  another,  the  date  of  tho  transfer  will  be  at  such  time  that 
all  entries  pertaining  to  vouchers  of  the  preceding  month  shall  have 
been  entered  on  the  return.  Transfers  of  accountability  will  not  take 
place  when  the  relief  of  the  commanding  officer  is  only  temporary. 

223.  The  semiannual  returns  of  commanding  officers  of  arsenals 
and  ordnance  depots  for  the  first  six  months  of  a  fiscal  year,  will  be 
forwarded .  to  the  Chief  pf  Ordnance  not  later  than  30  days  after 
the  expiration  of  the  period;  for  the  second  6  months,  the  period 
will  be  extended  to  90  days  on  account  of  the  time  required  in  taking 
the  inventory. 

The  annual  returns  required  of  United  States  property  and  dis- 
bursing officers  for  States,  Territories,  and  the  District  of  Columbia, 
will  be  forwarded  to  the  Chief  of  the  Militia  Bureau.  War  Deoartment, 
not  later  than  February  28  of  each  year. 

The  annual  returns  required  of  the  presidents  or  other  executive 
officers  of  schools  to  which  rifles  and  ammunition  have  been  issued 
under  the  act  of  Congress  approved  April  27,  1914,  will  be-forwarded 
to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  within  20  days  after  the  close  of  the  fiscal 
year. 

Semiannual  returns  of  all  other  accountable  officers  and  custodians 
of  ordnance  property  will  be  forwarded  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance 
within  20  days  after  the  period  to  which  they  relate;  but  returns 
rendered  by  officers  on  duty  in  the  Philippine  Department  will  be 
forwarded  to  the  chief  ordnance  officer  of  the  department,  who,  after 
a  preliminary  examination,  will  forward  them  to  the  Chief  of  Ord- 
nance. 

ARTICLE  XV. 

INVENTORIES  OF  ORDNANCE  PROPEKTY. 

See  A.  R.  693  of  1913. 

224.  All  officers  accountable  for  small-arms  ammunition,  «jceept 
commanding  officers  of  arsenals  and  other  ordnance  establishments, 
are  required,  before  rendering  their  returns  for  any  period,  to  take  an 
inventory,  as  of  the  last  day  thereof,  of  all  'small-arms  ammunition 
for  which  they  are  accountable.     This  inventory  will  cover  all  small - 
arms  ammunition  for  which  an  officer  is  accountable,  including  that 
which  may  be  on  the  target  range  and  in  the  possession  of  soldiers. 
The  certificate  submitted  with  the  returns  rendered  by  these  officers 
requires  that  they  shall  show  the  actual  quantities  of  small-arms 
ammunition  on  hand  at  the  end  of  the  period  for  which  they  have 
been  rendered. 

225.  Materiel  officers  of  Coast  Artillery  forts  and  commanding 
officers  of  Coast  Artillery  companies  responsible  for  artillery  ammuni- 
tion are  required  to  take,  at  the  end  of  each  semiannual  accounting 


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period,  an  inventory  of  the  artillery  ammunition  for  which  they  are 
responsible  and  to  forward  to  the  coast  defense  ordnance  officer  the 
following  certificate:  "I  certify  that  I  have  made  a  careful  inven- 
tory of  the  artillery  ammunition  for  which  I  am  responsible,  and  that 
the  memorandum  receipt  furnished  by  me  shows  the  actual  quantities 
of  such  ammunition  on  hand." 

Certificates  furnished  by  materiel  officers  of  Coast  Artillery  forts 
are  held  to  apply  only  to  the  ammunition  on  hand  in  their  custody 
and  not  to  ammunition  issued  to  commanding  officers  of  coast  artil- 
lery companies,  for  which  the  latter  are  required  to  take  an  inventory 
and  furnish  the  required  certificate. 

226.  The  requirements  of  the  two  preceding  paragraphs  of  these 
regulations  do  not  relieve  officers  from  the  duty  of  taking  from  time 
to  time  such  inventories  of  ordnance  property  for  which  they  are 
responsible  as  the  necessities  of  the  service,  or  the  exercise  of  a 
reasonable  degree  of  prudence,  may  dictate.     Officers  are  reminded 
that  the  form  of  return  submitted  by  them  contemplates  that  tho 
property  for  which  they  are  responsible  is  actually  on  hand,  ami  that 
it   is  their  duty  to  ascertain  that  such  is  the  case  before  mailing 
their  returns. 

227.  Commanding  officers  of  arsenals-  and  other  ordnance  estab- 
lishments are  required  to  take,  as  of  the  close  of  business  on  June  30 
of  each  year,  an  annual  inventory  of  all  the  ordnance  property  on 
hand,  and  hi  the  taking  of  this  inventory  they  will  be  guided  by  the 
following  instructions: 

(a)  The  duty  of  taking  the  inventory  will  devolve  upon  the  store- 
keepers, foremen,  and  other  employees  at  the  different  ordnance 
establishments,  who  are  charged  with  responsibility  for  the  safe- 
keeping or  use  of  the  property.  It  is  made  the  duty  of  all  such  per- 
sons to  familiarize  themselves  with  the  nomenclature  of  the  articles 
of  ordnance  property  for  which  they  are  responsible,  and  of  the  parts, 
accessories,  and  equipments  which  constitute  or  pertain  to  any  article 
of  ordnance  property.  When  storekeepers,  storekeepers'  assistants, 
foremen,  or  other  persons  charged  with  the  control  or  use  of  ordnance 
property  are  taking  the  inventory  they  will  be  designated  as 
''checkers,"  and  each  individual  will  be'given  a  separate  number,  in 
order  that  responsibility  for  error  may  be  readily  placed  from  the 
records  of  the  inventory.  Special  employees  will  not  be  assigned  for 
the  taking  of  any  part  of  the  inventory  unless  those  in  charge  of  the 
property  can  not  be  trained  for  the  proper  performance  of  this  duty. 
Whenever  practicable,  each  checker  will  have  an  assistant,  and  these 
employees  are  required  to  make  independent  counts,  which  must  be 
brought  to  agreement  during  the  progress  of  the  work. 

(I)  The  inventory  will  be  taken  as  early  as  practicable  after  June 
30  of  each  year,  and  the  final  records  will  give  the  status  of  the  prop- 


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erty  as  of  the  close  of  business  on  that  date.  During  the  taking  of 
the  inventory  the  suspension  of  all  transactions  in  property,  except 
in  urgent  cases,  is  authorized.  In  order  that  this  suspension  may  be 
least  detrimental  to  the  public  service,  it  is  necessary  that  the  period 
required  in  the  taking  of  the  inventory  shall  be  reduced  to  a  mini- 
mum. For  this  purpose  the  various  loose  articles  of  ordnance  prop- 
erty in  current  service  in  each  storehouse,  shop,  yard,  etc.,  will  be 
arranged  according  to  their  respective  kinds  and  conditions,  and  if 
any  part,  accessory,  or  tool  is  missing  from  any  article  of  ordnance 
property,  it  will  be  completed,  as  far  as  practicable,  by  the  furnishing 
of  the  missing  part,  accessory,  tool,  etc.,  so  that  the  number  of 
headings  of  articles  shall  be  reduced  to  a  mipinrnim.  The  various 
articles  of  ordnance  property  in  the  storehouses,  magazines,  etc.,  will, 
if  practicable,  be  arranged  so  that  for  each  location  the  same  kinds 
of  stores  will  be  found  together,  and  in  all  cases  the  number  of  broken 
boxes  and  of  incomplete  articles  will  be  reduced  to  a  minimum.  The 
storehouses,  magazines,  etc.,  will  be  divided  into  such  units  that  the 
checkers  and  their  assistants  assigned  to  the  taking  of  the  inventory 
of  these  units  will  complete  the  taking  of  the  entire  inventory  at 
about  the  same  date.  The  desirability  of  taking  at  any  time  an 
inventory  of  any  articles  of  ordnance  property  in  any  storehouse, 
magazine,  etc.,  will  be  impressed  on  the  proper  employees,  hi  order 
that  they  may  be  trained  in  this  important  work  and  the  property 
arranged  in  its  places  of  storage  in  an  orderly  and  systematic  manner, 
and,  when  practicable,  in  accordance  with  the  prescribed  classifica- 
tion. 

(c)  Since  the  inventory  is  required  to  give  the  quantities  and  con- 
ditions ol  the  different  articles  of  ordnance  property  at  the  close  of 
business  on  June  30,  accurate  records  wiH  therefore  be  kept  of  the 
quantities  and  conditions  of  the  articles  of  ordnance  property  received 
or  issued  subsequent  to  that  date  and  prior  to  the  making  of  the 
actual  count  of  the  kinds  "of  articles  to  which  such  property  pertains; 
but  articles  of  ordnance  property  received  during  this  interval  may 
be  stored  separately  pending  the  completion  of  the  count  of  like 
articles,  and  when  this  property  is  so  marked  or  indicated  that  there 
is  no  possibility  of  its  being  counted  on  the  taking  of  the  inventory, 
record  will  not  be  kept  of  the  receipts  of  this  property  for  the  purpose 
of  the  inventory. 

(d)  When  materials  are  undergoing  the  process  of  manufacture 
into  articles  of  ordnance  property,  actual  count  will  not  be  made  in 
the  shops  of  the  various  quantities  and  kinds  of  these  materials,  but 
this  information  will  be  taken  from  the  cost-keeping  records,  which 
give  the  quantities  and  kinds  of  materials  which  have  been  expended 
on  account  of  articles  undergoing  manufacture,  and  will  constitute 
part  of  the  inventory.     But  when  articles  of  ordnance  property  have 


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been,  manufactured  and  accounted  for  the  inventory  will  not  include 
the  quantities  and  kinds  of  materials  which  have  entered  into  the  man- 
ufacture of  such  articles,  since  they  should  appear  in  the  inventory 
under  the  names  of  the  articles  so  manufactured  and  accounted  for. 

(e)  For  the  purpose  of  taking  and  recording  the  inventory  three 
hlank  forms  are  provided,  namely:  Form  No.  97,  on  which  each 
checker  records  the  count  of  each  article  in  the  location  assigned  to 
him;  Form  No.  98,  on  which  each  checker  submits  his  signed  report 
of  the  location  of  the  articles,  accompanied  by  the  records  of  the 
count  prepared  on  Form  No.  97,  and  Form  No.  99,  on  which  the 
summary  of  the  quantities  of  each  article  or  its  different  locations  is 
prepared.  These  various  forms  or  cards  are  of  such  dimensions  (6 
inches  by  4  inches)  that  they  may  be  readily  filed  in  standard  drawers 
so  as  to  provide  at  all  times  for  the  safety  and  accessibility  of  the 
records  contained  on  them. 

(/)  Articles  will  be  counted  and  entered  on  Form  No.  97  in  the  order 
in  which  they  are  found  in  the  storehouses,  magazines,  shops,  etc. 
When  the  same  article  is  stored  in  several  places,  even  in  "the  same 
room,  separate  entries  will.be  made  on  the  card  or  sheet  for  the  quan- 
tities in  each  place ;  that  is,  the  checker  will  not  move  from  place  to 
place  to  complete  the  count  of  any  article.  Original  boxes  or  pack- 
ages will  not  be  opened  for  verification,  but  will  be  counte'd  as  they 
are  marked. 

Form  No.  97  has  been  prepared  so  that  there  is  ft  separate  card  or 
sheet  for  each  article  found  in  the  location  assigned  to  a  checker,  on 
\9hich  will  be  stated  the  name  of  the  article  and  the  quantities  thereof 
according  to  their  conditions.  The  card  or  sheet  also  .gives  for  each 
article  its  classification,  the  return  on  which  the  quantities  thereof 
are  accounted  for,  the  date- on  which  the  count  was  made,  the  checker's 
number,  and  the  number  of  the  card  or  sheet  as  a  part  of  the  checker's 
report.  Since  t.hia  blank  form  can  be  used  for  reporting  the  quanti- 
ties of  an  article  received  into  or  issued"  from  the  location  assigned 
to  the  checker  subsequent  to  June  30  and  pending  the  completion 
of  its  count,  provision  has  been  made  on  it  for  indicating  whether 
entries  thereon  are  the  result  of  a  count,  or  of  a  receipt,  or  issue. 
When  the  form  is  used  to  record  a  count  the  words  "Receipt"  and 
A Issue"  will  be  struck  out.  If  it  is  used  to  record  the  quantities 
pf  an  article  received  the  words  "Count"  and  "Issue"  will  be  struck 
out;  similarly,  in  case  it  is  used  to  record  the  quantities  of  an.  article 
issued,  the  words  "Count"  and  "Receipt"  will  be  struck  out.  The 
quantities  of  the  various  articles  according  to  their  conditions  will 
be  reported  in  the  appropriate  columns  under  the  headings  de- 
scriptive of  these  conditions  as  "new,"  "cleaned  and  repaired," 
"  unserviceable,"  and  "  in  current  service." 


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When  a  checker  has  made  a  complete  count  of  all  the  articles 
found  in  the  location  assigned  to  him  there  will  bo  as  many  cards  or 
sheets  as  there  are  articles,  and  where  any  sheet  shows  entries  of  tho 
quantities  of  an  article  found  in  different  places  there  will  be  as  many 
entries  as  there  are  places  for  the  several  quantities  of  this  article, 
and  these  quantities  wiB  be  footed  and  entry  of  their  totals  made 
on  the  sheet;  and  the,  date  of  the  final  count  of  the  quantities  of  uny 
article  found  in  any  location  will  be  entered  on  its 'appropriate  sheet. 

When  an  article  is  received  subsequent  to  June  30  and  is  required 
to  be  stored  in  a  location  assigned  to  a  checker  where  a  complete 
count  of  the  quantities  of  this  article  has  not  been  made,  tho  checker 
will  be  informed  of  the  receipt  of  the  article  and  will  record  on  Form 
No.  97  the  count  ol  the  quantifies  of  the  article  received  in  accord- 
ance with  its  condition,  and  note  on  the  sheet  the  date  of  the  count. 
After  making  this  record  the  quantity  of  the  article  received  v;ill  be 
stored  in  the  location  assigned  to  the  checker  and  will  be  subsequently 
counted  along  with  the  remaining  quantities  of  the  same  article. 
When  special  provision  is  made,  as  indicated  above  in  part  (c),  for 
the  separate  storiug  of  articles  received  subsequent  to  June  30  and 
pending  the  completion  of  their  count,  the  requirement  imposed  by 
this  part  (/)  will  be  obviated. 

When  an  issue  of  the  quantity  of  an  article  is  made  subsequent  to 
June  30  from  the  location  assigned  to  a  checker  and  where  a  complete 
count  of  tho  article  has  not  already  been  made,  the  checker  is  required 
to  make  a  count  of  the  quantitj'  of  the  article  issued  and  to  enter 
the  count  thereof  on  Form  No.  97,  according  to  its  condition,  noting 
thereon  the  date  of  the  count  in  accordance  with  the  method  outlined 
hi  case  of  receipts. 

Tho  checker  is  now  in  a  position  to  make  his  report,  which  will 
-constitute  the  inventory  of  the  articles  found  in  the  location  assigned 
to  him.  This  report  will  bo  prepared  by  arranging  the  various  cards 
or  sheets,  when  practicable,  according  to  the  classification  of  the 
articles  reported  thereon,  and  attaching  to  these  sheets  the  checker's 
report  blank  (Form  No.  98)  by  means  of  fasteners  passing  through 
the  perforations  in  the  margins  of  the  several  sheets.  When  counts 
have  been  made  of  receipts  and  issues  of  an  article  pending  the 
completion  of  its  count,  the  various  cards  or  sheets  on  which  these 
entries  have  beer  made  will  follow  directly  after  the  sheet  on  which 
tho  regular  count  of  the  article  has  been,  entered. 

The  report  prepared  on  Form  No.  98  will  be  filled  in  as  indicated 
so  as  to  give  the  checker's  name,  his  number,  the  location  of  the 
stores,  and  the  number  of  sheets  attached  to  the  report.  When  thus 
completed  and  the  various  sheets  containing  the  records  of  the  counts 
of  the  quantities  of  the  articles  pertaining  to  the  location  assigned 
to  the  checker  have  been  attached  thereto  and  the  sheets  serially 


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numbered,  the  report  will  be  signed  by  the  ciieckor  and  submitted  to 
the  storekeeper,  foreman,  or  other  person  having  charge  of  the  store- 
house, shop,  etc.,  in  which  the  articles  were  located.  The  various 
reports  will  be  inspected  by  the  storekeeper,  foreman,  etc.,  to  see  that 
they  are  properly  prepared  and,  when  found  satisfactory  to  them, 
will  be  submitted  to  the  clerk  having  charge  of  the  completing  and 
filing  of  the  inventory. 

(g)  When  the  various  reports  have  been  received  from  the  store- 
keepers, foremen,  etc.,  they  will  be  again  inspected  to  ascertain 
whether  they  have  been  correctly  prepared,  so  that  in  case  of  an 
error  made  by  any  checker  responsibility  can  be  readily  fixed  from 
the  records  furnished  by  him.  The  various  records  of  4he  counts  of 
the  different  articles  of  ordnance  property  prepared  on  Form  No.  97 
will  be  detached  from  the  checkers'  reports  and  assembled  according 
to  the  articles  described  on  the  sheets.  There  will,  therefore,  be 
arranged  together  for  the  same  article  the  various  sheets  on  which 
the  records  of  the  quantities  of  this  article,  according  to  their  differ- 
ent locations,  are  entered.  The  various  (checkers'  reports  prepared 
of  Form  No.  98  may  now  be  filed  according  to  the  checkers'  numbers, 
for  reference  in  case  errors  are  subsequently  discovered,  or  destroyed 
if  the  possibility  of  errors  is  remote. 

Wheix  all  the  sheets  covering  the  records  of  the  quantities  on  hand 
of  any  article  in  the  different  locations  have  been  assembled,  a  sum- 
mary of  these  quantities  will  be  entered  on  the  summary  card,  Form 
No.  99,  according  to  their  conditions;  and  these  sheets  will  be 
attached  to  the  summary  card  by  fasteners  passing  through  the  mar- 
gins. The  summary  card  will  be  filled  in  as  indicated,  so  as  to  give 
the  classification  of  the  article,  the  return  to  which  it  pertains,  its 
name,  the  various  quantities  on  hand  of  the  article  according  to  its 
condition,  and  the  number  of  cards  or  sheets  attached  to  the  sum- 
mary. In  summarizing  the  various  quantities  on  hand  according 
to  their  conditions  the  quantities  reported  as  having  been  received 
during  the  progress  of  the  inventory  will  be  subtracted  from  the  quan- 
tities found  on  hand  and  those  issued  during  the  progress  of  the 
inventory,  and  the  totals  will  be  stated  at  the  bottom  of  the  summary 
card.  By  this  method  the  summary  card  will  contain  the  record  of 
the  quantities  on  hand  of  any  article  according  to  its  condition  as  of 
the  close  of  business  on  June  30. 

The  various  summary  cards  and  the  appropriate  sheets  attached 
thereto  on  which  the  records  on  the  summary  cards  are  based  will 
be  filed  in  drawers  according  to  the  classification  of  the  articles  cov- 
ered by  the  inventory. 

When  it  shall  have  been  definitely  ascertained  that  the  records  on 
the  various  summary  cards  are  correct,  the  several  sheets  attached 
thereto  may  be  detached  and  filed  elsewhere,  or  destroyed.  When 


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the  various  summary  cards  have  been  arranged  in  drawers  according 
to  the  classification  of  the  articles  described  on  them,  this  classifi- 
cation will  be  indicated  by  means  of  appropriate  index  cards  which 
will  be  procured  for  the  purpose.  The  various  summary  cards  will 
be  retained  until  the  returns  to  which  they  pertain  shall  have  been 
settled  by  the  Chief  of  Ordnance,  when  they  will  be  destroyed. 

ARTICLE  XVI. 
SETTLEMENT  OF  RETURNS. 

See  A.  R.  700,  702,  703,  1262,  1308,  1309,  and  1310  of  1913,  and 
the  regulations  governing  the  National  Guard  of  the  United  States. 

228.  When  a  return  of  ordnance  property  lias  been  received  in  the 
Office  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  it  will  be  examined  as  early  as  prac- 
ticable thereafter  with  a  view  to  ascertaining — 

(a)  If  all  the  property  required  to  be  accounted  for  by  the  officer 
rendering  the  return  lias  been  duly  accounted  for  on  the  return; 

(b)  If  the  transfers  of  property  reported  thereon  have  been  reported 
in  accordance  with  regulations  and  orders; 

(c)  If  the  expenditures  reported  thereon  were  properly  authorized; 

(d)  If  the  vouchers  covering  the  loss,  damage,  or  destruction  of 
ordnance  property  are  such  as  to  show  that  the  loss,  damage,  or 
destruction  occurred  without  fault  or  neglect  on  the  part  of  the 
responsible  officer;  and 

(e)  If  the  return  is  in  all  other  respects  correctly .  and  properly 
stated  and  rendered. 

229.  When  errors  or  irregularities  are  found  on  the  examination 
of  a  return,  a  letter  will  be  addressed  directly  to  the  officer  or  other 
custodian  of  ordnance  property  rendering  the  return,  inviting  his 
attention  to  the  errors  and  irregularities,  with  a  view  to  their  correc- 
tion or  explanation.     When  errors  or  irregularities  can  be  better  cor- 
rected or  explained  by  another  officer  the  letter  may  be  addressed 
directly  to  the  latter  with  a  view  to  obtaining  the  desired  correc- 
tions or  explanations.     Vouchers,  when  not  considered  satisfactory 
to  cover  ordnance  property,  may  be   returned   directly,  or  indi- 
rectly, to  the  responsible  officer,  informing  him  wherein  they  are 
unsatisfactory  and  calling  on  him  for  further  explanation  or  addi- 
tional reasons  to  show  why  he  should  not  be  charged  with  the 
money-value  of  the  lost,  damaged,  or  destroyed  property. 

230.  It  is  made  the  duty  of  every  officer  or  other  custodian  of 
ordnance  property  receiving  communications  inviting  his  attention 
to  errors  or  irregularities  in  a  return  rendered  by  him  to  make  reply 
thereto  as  early  as  practicable,  in  order  that  there  shall  be  no  unneces- 
sary delay  in  the  settlement  of  the  return.     If  it  is  not  practicable 

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to  make  an  immediate  reply  to  a  communication  of  this  character, 
the  officer  receiving  it  will  address  a  letter  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance 
explaining  why  he  can  not  at  an  early  date  make  the  corrections  or 
give  the  explanations  desired. 

231.  When  an  officer  is  unable  to  render  his  ordnance  return 
within  the  time  prescribed  by  the  Army  Regulations,  or  to  correct  the 
errors  or  irregularities  found  in  the  return  within  three  months  after 
receiving  a  communication  in  regard  to  them,  he  can  not  any  longer 
delay  the  rendition  of  the  return,  or  the  making  of  the  cfesired  correc- 
tions or  explanations  of  the  errors  or  irregularities,  without  obtaining 
the  authority  of  the  Secretary  of  War.     The  request  forjan  extension 
of  time  will  give  in  detail  the  reasons  for  the  officer's  inability  to 
render  the  return,  or  to  make  the  corrections  or  explanations,  within 
the  prescribed  times. 

232.  When  an  officer  is  unable  to  correct  the  errors  or  irregularities 
found  in  his  return,  or  to  furnish  satisfactory  reasons  to  show  why  he 
should  not  be  charged  with  the  money  value  of  the  property  lost, 
damaged,  or  destroyed,  it  will  be  recommended  to  the  Secretary  of 
War  that  he  be  held  pecuniarily  responsible  for  the  money  value  of 
the  property  involved.     Similarly,  when  an  officer  fails  to  render  his 
return  within  a  reasonable  tune  it  will  be  recommended  to  the 
Secretary  of  War  that  a  stoppage  be  raised  against  his  pay  to  cover 
the  money  value  of  the  property  for  which  he  has  failed  to  account. 

233.  When  a  return  shows1  no  errors  or  irregularities,  or  the  errors 
or  irregularities  have  been  corrected  or  satisfactorily  explained,  the 
return  will  be  considered  as  settled  and  the  accountable  officer 
notified  to  this  effect.     If,  however,  a  later  examination  of  returns 
rendered  by  other  officers  shows  that  the  officer  whose  return  has  been 
settled  failed  to  account  for  ordnance  property  required  to  be  ac- 
counted for  by  him,  or  failed  to  take  credit  for  ordnance  property 
transferred  by  him,  the  return  may  be  opened  with  a  view  to  making 
the  desired  corrections  based  on  this  examination,  or  these  correc- 
tions may  be  made  in  a  later  return. 

234.  Whenev.er  National  Guard  organizations  hi  the  service  of  the 
United  States  are  about  to  be  mustered  out,  the  mustering  officers 
are  required  to  forward  immediately  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  a  list 
of  those  officers  who  are,  or  at  any  time  have  been,  accountable  for 
ordnance  property,  (a)  except  that  it  need  not  include  those  who 
have  taken  the  oath  prescribed  by  section  73,  national  defense  act 
of  June  3,  1917.     The  returns  of  such  officers  as  are  on  file  in  the 
Office  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  will  be  examined  without  delay  and 
the  result  thereof  reported  to  the  depot  quartermaster,  Washington^ 
D.  C.    Officers  of  such  organizations  who  have  not  at  any  time  been 
accountable  for  ordnance  property,  except  those  who  have  oaken 
the  oath  above  referred  to,  are  required  to  furnish  the  mustering 


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officer  with  an  affidnvit  of  that  fact,  certified  to  by  the  commanding 
officer  of  the  regiment,  independent  battalion,  or  company. 

When  the  final  returns  of  these  officers  shall  have  been  examined 
and  their  accounts  in  the  Office  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  audited, 
certificates  of  nonindebtedness  will  be  furnished  the  depot  quarter- 
master, Washington,  D.  C.  If  this  examination  shows  any  indebt- 
edness to  the  United  States,  the  certificate  will  itemize  the  charges  so" 
made. 

235.  Whenever  an  official  notification  is  received  in  the  Office  of 
the  Chief  of  Ordnance  that  an  officer  is  about  to  resign,  or  be  mustered 
out  of  service,  the  records  of  the  Ordnance  Office  are  examined  to 
ascertain  whether  he  has  at  any  time  during  his  term  of  service 
become  responsible  for  ordnance  property,  and  if  so,  whether  he 
has  made  all  the  required  returns.     If  he  has  not  made  the  whole 
or  a  portion  of  them,  such  as  are  unexamined  in  the  office  are  at 
once  examined  with  a  view  to  final  settlement. 

236.  When  an  officer  is  separated  from  the  service  by  resignation, 
death,  or  otherwise,  final  payment  will  not  be  made  to  him,  or  his 
heirs,  until  full  and  satisfactory  evidence  has  been  furnished  that  all 
the  ordnance  property  for  which  he  is  responsible  has  been  satis- 
factorily accounted  for.     When  the  returns  rendered  by,  or  on  behalf 
of,  this  officer  shall  have  been  settled,  a  certificate  of  nonindebtedness 
will  be  sent  to  the  depot  quartermaster,  Washington,  D.  C.     If  there 
are  any  charges  to  be  made  against  the  officer,  or  his  estate,  it  will 
be  so  stated  in  this  certificate. 

When  an  officer  so  separated  from  the  service  is  responsible  for 
ordnance  property  held  on  an  authorized  memorandum  receipt,  it 
is  made  the  duty  of  the  accountable  officer  to  ascertain  that  all  the 
property  so  held  on  memorandum  receipt  has  been  returned  to  him, 
or  turned  over  to  him  and  covered  by  a  like  receipt  furnished  by  the 
latter.  When  this  property,  either  in  whole  or  in  part,  can  not  be 
returned,  or  receipted  for,  the  accountable  officer  will  immediately 
report  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  the  quantities  and  kinds  of  property 
for  which  tliis  ofiicer  failed  to  make  restitution  or  to  furnish  receipts. 

237.  When  the  president  of  an  educational  institution  or  the  gov- 
ernor or  other  principal  officer  of  a  State  soldiers  and  sailors  orphans' 
home  fails  to  render  his  return  of  ordnance  property  within  the  pre- 
scribed time,  or  to  make  corrections  or  explanations  of  the  errors  or 
irregularities  found  in  his  return  within  two  months  after  the  date 
of  the  receipt  of  the  communication  covering  them,  the  Chief  of 
Ordnance  will  report  the  facts  to  the  Secretary  of  War  with  a  view 
to  having  the  property  in  the  possession  of  the  institution  or  home 
returned  to  the  United  States. 

238.  Failure  on  the  part  of  any  rifle  club  or  school  to  comply  with 
any  of  the  regulations  prescribed  by  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  for  the 


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use,  core,  preservation,  or  accountability  of  the  ordnance  property 
issued  to  it  by  the  United  States,  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of 
Congress  approved  April  27,  1914,  will  be  considered  sufficient  cause 
for  the  prompt  withdrawal  by  the  Secretary  of  War  of  the  Government 
property  in  its  possession. 

239.  Whenever  any  rifle  club  01  school  shall  fail  to  return  the  arms 
and  appendages  therefor  in  its  charge  within  30  days  after  demand 
made  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  the  delinquency  will  be  immediately 
referred  to  the  Attorney  General  of  the  United  States,  in  order  that 
its  bond  may  forthwith  be  put  in  suit 

240.  When  an  officer  or  other  custodian  of  ordnance  property,  by 
reason  of  sickness  or  other  causes,  is  obliged  to  settle  his  account- 
ability through  an  agent,  it  is  required  that  the  officer  or  other  cus- 
todian shall  furnish  this  a,gent  with  a  letter  showing  his  authority 
to  act  for  him  in  the  premises.     However,  when  the  position  of  the 
person  representing  the  officer  or  other  custodian  is  a  guaranty  of  his 
standing  in  the  case,  such  as  a  Member  of  Congress  or  a  civil  or 
military  officer  of  the  Government,  this  requirement  will  be  waived. 
Officers  or  other  custodians  of  ordnance  property  are  informed  that 
they  can  settle  their  property  accountability  with  greater  dispatch  by 
correspondence  or  by  calling  in  person  than  through  persons  whom, 
they  may  appoint  as  their  agents. 

241.  When  an  officer  or  other  custodian  of  ordnance  property 
is  shown  by  the  property  accounts  in  the  office  of  .the  Chief  of  Ord- 
nance to  be  indebted  to  the  United  States,  and  he  has  not  paid  the 
amount  of  this  indebtedness,  a  certificate  covering  in  detail  the  facts 
in  the  case  will  be  forwarded  to  the  Auditor  for  the  War  Department, 
in  order  that  the  latter  may  enter  suit  against  the  delinquent  officer 
or  other  custodian  of  ordnance  property  for  the  amount  of  the  in- 
debtedness. 

ARTICLE  XVIL 

REPORTS  ON  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

242.  Quarterly  reports  prepared  on  Forms   Nos.  70A    and  70B 
are  required  to  be  made  in  duplicate  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  by  each 
coast  defense  commander  of  the  ammunition  for  cannon,  telescopic 
sights,  fire-control  instruments,  etc.,  as  indicated  by  the  forms.     In 
the  Philippine  Department  these  reports  will  be  forwarded  through 
the  ordnance  officer  of  that  department. 

A  report  prepared  on  Form  No.  87  is  required  to  be  made  quarterly, 
in  duplicate,  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  by  all  officers,  except  com- 
manding officers  of  ordnance  establishments,  who  are  accountable 
for  mobile  artillery,  giving  the  quantities  of  the  guns,  carriages, 
ammunition,  etc.,  on  hand  as  indicated  by  the  form.  This  report 
•will  be  sent  through  the  ordnance  officer  in  charge  of  each  district. 


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A  report  prepared  on  Form  No.  84  is  required  to  he  made  semi- 
annually  to  the  chief  ordnance  officer  of  each  department,  division, 
expedition,  etc.,  by  the  unit  supply  officer  of  each  regiment,  battalion, 
or  other  independent  organizations,  giving  a  list  of  the  principal 
serviceable  stores  on  hand,  etc.,  as  indicated  by  the  form.  This  re- 
port will  be  limited  to  reporting  the  quantities  of  small  arms,  hand 
arms,  personal  equipments  of  the  soldier,  horse  equipments,  and  the 
small-arms  ammunition  on  hand  in  each  organization  and  in  the 
possession  of  post  or  regimental  ordnance  officers.  In  time  of  peace 
this  report  may  be  dispensed  with  if  the  department  commander  so 
desires. 

A  record  prepared  on  Form  No.  21,  secured  in  a  binder,  may  be 
kept  by  each  coast  defense  ordnance  officer,  at  his  option,  showing 
the  distribution  of  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  at  the  various 
posts  in  his  district.  (See  Artillery  Memoranda  No.  1  of  1907.) 

243.  The  commanding  officers  of  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots, 
inspectors  of  ordnance,  and  inspectors  of  powder  are  required  to  sub- 
mit such  statements  of  property,  inspection  reports,  progress  reports, 
etc.,  on  ordnance  property  as  may  be  required  by  the  Chief  of  Ord- 
nance. Ordnance  property  will  not  be  described  on  these  reports  as 
obsolete  without  authority  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


TO  THB 


ORDNANCE  PROPERTY  REGUT  CATIONS;  GIVING  THE  LISTS 

OF  FORMS  REQUIRED  IN  ACCOUNTING  FOR 

ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 


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APPENDIX. 


DESIGNATIONS  OF  THE  FORMS  REQUIRED  BY  COMMANDING  OFFICERS 
OF  ARSENALS  IN  ACCOUNTING  FOR  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

•  (a)  GENERAL  FORMS. 
Form  No.  15. 

This  form  is  for  use  in  accounting  for  property  for  which  special  forms  with  printed 
headings  are  not  provided  and  constitutes,  when  executed,  part  of  the  inside  sheets 
of  the  return. 

Form  No.  15 — Cover,  front. 
Form  No.  15 — Cover,  back. 

These  two  forms,  when  properly  prepared,  constitute  the  cover  of  the  semiannual 
return  of  the  first  division  of  ordnance  property. 

Form  No.  16. 

This  form,  when  executed,  is  the  register  of  vouchers  or  index  to  the  semiannual 
return  of  the  first  division  of  ordnance  property  required  to  be  rendered  by  the 
commanding  officers  of  arsenals  and  ordnance  deuots. 

Form  No.  17. 

This  form,  when  executed,  constitutes  what  is  generally  known  as  the  card  property 
return  of  the  second  division  of  ordnance  property.  These  cards,  however,  are  really 
vouchers  to  the  semiannual  certificate  return,  giving  the  status  of  the  ordnance  prop- 
erty constituting  the  second  division  at  the  various  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots. 

Form  No.  22. 

Top  binder  board  for  vouchers. 
Form  No.  25. 

Bottom  binder  board  for  vouchers. 
Form  No.  602,  A.  G.  O. 

Statement  of  charges. 
Form  No.  600,  A.  G.  0. 

Transfer  of  ordnance  property. 
Form  No.  152. 

Transfer  of  ordnance  property  under  A.  R.  1535  of  1913. 
Form  No.  2l9. 

.Abstract  of  purchases  (outside  sheet). 
Form  No.  220. 

Abstract  of  purchases  (inside  sheet). 
Form  No.  274. 

Abstract  of  transfers  (outside  sheet). 

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Form  JSo.  275. 

Abstract  of  transfers  (inside  sheet). 
Form  No.  322. 

Abstract  of  funds  received  from  authorized  sales. 
Form  No.  1066. 

Certificate  of  inspection  and  receipt. 
Form  No.  1243. 

Report  of  operations  (outside  sheet). 
Form  No  1244. 

Report  of  operations  (inside  sheet). 
Form  No.  1,  I.  G.  D. 

Inventory  and  inspection  report. 
Form  No.  196,  A.  G.  O. 

Report  of  survey. 

(b)  SPECIAL  FORMS. 

PART  1,  CLASS  IV,  SECTION   1. 

Form  No.  15-IV-IS. 

Automatic  mat  bine  rifle, »  aliber  .30,  model  of  1909,  with  tools,  accessories  and  spare 
parts 

Form  No.  15-1 V  -IT. 

Pack  outfit  for  automatic  rifle,  caliber  .30,  model  of  1909,  and  its  tools,  accessories, 
and  parts. 

PA"RT   1,   CLASS  Vn,    SECTION    1. 

Form  No.  15-VII-l  A. 

I  .  S.  rifle,  model  of  1903,  spare  parts  and  appendages. 
Form  No.  15-VII-l  B. 

U.  S.  magazinv  rifle,  model  of  1898,  spare  parts  and  appendages. 
Form  No.  15-VII-l  C. 

U.  8.  magazine  carbine,  model  of  1899,  spare  parts  and  appendages. 
Form  No.  15-VIT-l  D. 

Gallery  practice  rifle,  model  of  1903,  and  appendages. 

PART  1,   CLASS   Vn,   SECTION  2. 

Form  No.  15-VH-2  A. 

Colt's  revolver,  cal.  .38,  models  of  1901  and  1903,  spare  parts  and  appendages. 
Form  No.  15-VII-2  B. 

Coll 's  revolver,  cal.  .46,  model  of  1909,  spare  parts  and  appendages. 
Form  No.  15-VII-2  C. 

Automatic  pistol,  cal.  .45.  model  of  1911,  spare  parts  and  appendages. 

PART   1,    CLASS   Vn,    SECTION   5. 

Form  No.  15-VII-6  A. 

Cavalry  and  aitillery  sabers,  N.  0.  O.  swords,  H.  C.  knives,  and  their  scabbardi 
and  parts. 


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Form  No.  15-VIT-5  B. 

Knife  bayonet  and  bayonet  scabbard,  model  of  1905,  and  their  parts. 
Form  No.  15-VII-5  C. 

Bayonet  for  the  model  of  1898  rifle,  bayonet  scabbard,  model  of  1899,  and  their 
parts. 

Form  No.  15-VII-5  I). 
Officers'  sword  and  its  scabbard,  and  their  parts  and  appendages. 

PAET   1,   CLASS    VIII,    SECTION    1. 

Form  No.  15-VIII-l  A. 

Ammunition  for  the  U.  S.  rifle,  model  of  1903,  and  gallery  practice  rifle,  model 
of  1903. 

PART   1,   CLASS  IX,    SECTION    1. 

-Form  No.  15-IX-l  A. 

Infantry  equipments,  standard,  and  components. 

PART   1,   CLASS   IX,    SECTION   2. 

Form  No.  15-IX-2  A. 
Cavalry  equipments,  standard,  and  components. 

PART   1,   CLASS   IX,   SECTION  3. 

Form  No.  15-IX-3  A. 
Artillery  equipments  and  components. 

PART   1,   CLASS  IX,   SECTION  5. 

Form  No.  16-IX-5  A. 
Horse  equipments,  standard,  and  components. 

PART   1,   CLASS  IX,    SECTION  6. 

Form  No.  15-1 X-6  A. 
Officers'  equipments  and  their  components  (personal  and  horse). 

PART   1,    CLASS   X,    SECTION   1. 

Form  No.  15-X-l  A. 

Arm  chests,  arm  lockers,  etc. 
Form  No.  15-X-l  B. 

Arm  racks. 

PART   1,    CLASS   X,    SECTION   2. 

Form  No.  15-X-2  A. 

Fencing  equipments,  cavalry  and  infantry. 


Form  No   15-X-3  A. 
Intrenching  tools. 

PART  1,    CLASS   X,    SECTION  4. 

Form  No.  15-X-4  A. 

Insignia  for  small-arms  and  gunnery  practice 

PART   1,    CLASS  X,   SECTION  5. 

Form  No.  15-X-5  A. 

Marking  and  stamping  outfits.  , 

Form  No.  15-X-5  B. 

Stencil  and  etching  outfits. 


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PART   1,    CLASS   X.    SECTION   7. 

Form  No.  15-X-7  A. 

Laidley  revolving  targets,  6  by  6  feet  and  6  by  12  feet,  and  their  parts. 
Form  No.  15-X-7  C. 

Sliding  targets,  6  by  6  feet  and  6  by  12  feet,  and  their  parts. 
Form  No.  15-X  -7  F. 

Target  interior  frames,  paper  targets,  centers  for  paper  targets,  and  pasters. 
Form  No.  15-X-7  G. 

Small-arms  skirmish  targets,  including  cloth  silhouettes  and  paper  silhouettes 
therefor. 

Form  No.  15-X-7  J. 

Accessories  for  small-arms  target  practice,  consisting  of  flags,  sand  glasses,  marking 
disks,  and  stavea,  etc. 

PART  1,   CLASS  Z,    SECTION  8. 

Form  No.  15-X-8  C. 

I )(  rapping  and  cleaning  tools  for  cal.  .30  cartridges,  models  of  1898  aud  1906,  and 
cal.  .38  revolver  cartridges. 

PAST  1,   CLASS  Z,   SECTION  % 

Form  No.  15-X-9  B. 

Company  repair  kit,  model  of  1903  rifle. 
Form  No.  15-X-9  C. 

Armorer's  tool  chest  and  contents. 
Form  No.  15-X-9  D. 

Blacksmith's  tools. 
Form  No.  15-X-9  E. 

Carpenter's  tools. 
Form  No.  15-X-9-F. 

Saddler's  tools. 

PABT  1,  CLASS  Z,  SECTION   SB. 

Form  No.  15-X-10  A. 

Cleaning  materials.  * 

Form  No.  15-X-10  B. 

Cloth,  rope,  thread,  etc. 
Form  No.  15-X-10  C. 

Hardware! 
Form  No.  15-X-10  D. 

Leather,  hides,  etc. 
Form  No.  15-X-10  E. 

Oils,  etc. 
Form  No.  15-X-10  P. 

Paints,  etc. 
Form  No.  15-X-10  G. 

Tools  and  utensils. 


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DESIGNATIONS  OF  THE  FORMS  REQUIRED  BY  ALL  OFFICERS  AND  CUS- 
TODIANS OF  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY,  OTHER  THAN  COMMANDING 
OFFICERS  OF  ARSENALS  IN  ACCOUNTING  FOR  ORDNANCE  PROPERTY. 

(a)  GENERAL  FORMS. 
Form  No.  18-Cover  B. 

This  form  constitutes  the  cover  for  the  semiannual  return  second  division,  rendered 
by  coast  defense  ordnance  officers  and  for  the  semiannual  return  of  post  and  camp 
ordnance  officers,  commanding  officers  of  ordnance  depots,  and  inspectors  of  ordnance. 

Form  No.  18-Cover. 

This,  form  constitutes  the  cover  for  the  semiannual  return  rendered  by  other  officers 
and  custodians  accountable  for  ordnance  property,  except  regimental,  battalion,  or 
other  unit  ordnance  supply  officers,  officers'  individual  horse  equipments,  rifle  clubs, 
and  schools. 

Forr  i  No.  18. 

This  form  constitutes  the  inside  sheets  of  the  return.  It  is  provided  with  blank 
headings  for  use  when  the  forms  with  printed  headings  are  not  applicable.  Officers 
and  other  persons  accountable  for  ordnance  property  arc  required  to  write  in  the 
blank  headings  the  proper  descriptions  of  the  articles  according  to  thn  nomenclature 
and  classification  prescribed  in  ordnance  price  lists  or  other  official  publications. 
Thp  sheets  so  prepared  will  be  inserted  in  the  cover  of  the  return  according  to  the  proper 
cians  and  section  to  which  the  property  pertains. 

Form  No.  18-A. 

This  form  is  only  for  use  in  making  special  individual  returns  required  by  A.  R. 
1520  of  1913,  to  cover  accountability  for  horse  equipments  issued  to  officers  of  the 
Army  below  the  grade  of  major,  not  serving  with  organizations  having  unit  equip- 
ment or  at  posts. 

Form  No.  18-B. 

This  form  is  for  use  in  making  the  semiannual  returns  required  to  bo  rendered  by 
rifle  clubs  and  annual  returns  to  be  rendered  by  schools  to  which  rifles,  etc.,  have 
beon  issued  under  the  act  of  Congress  approved  April  27,  1914. 

Form  No.  19-B. 

Certificate  of  expenditure  of  ammunition  by  rifle  clubs  and  schools. 
Form  No.  23. 

Top  binder  board  for  vouchers  submitted  with  second  division  re-turns  by  coast 
defense  ordnance  officers. 

Fofm  No.  24. 

Top  binder  board  for  vouchers  submitted  by  ordnance  officers  at  recruit  depots. 
Form  No.  25. 

Bottom  binder  board  for  vouchers  submitted  with  the  two  preceding  forms. 
Form  No.  152. 

Transfer  of  ordnance  property  tinder  A.  B.  1535  of  1913. 
Form  No.  152  P. 

Transfer  of  ordnance  -property  furnished  to  detachments  of  enlisted  men  transferred 
from  recruit  depute  under  A.  K.  1535  of  1913. 

Form  No.  153. 
Receipt  roll  to  accompany  form  Ko .  162  D. 


109 

Form  No.  219. 

Abstract  of  purchases  (outride  sheet). 
Form  No.  220. 

Abstract  of  purchases  (inside  sheet). 
Form  No.  322. 

Abstract  of  funds  received  from  authorized  sales. 

Form  No.  1,  I.  G   D. 
Inventory  and  inspection  report. 

Form  No.  196,  A.  G.  O. 

lleport  of  survey. 
Form  No.  448,  A.  G.  O. 

Memorandum  receipt. 
Form  No.  448  b,  A.  G.  O. 

Abstract  record  of  memorandum  receipt. 
Form  No.  448  a,  A.  G.  O. 

Instruction  slip  to  be  used  in  connection  with  the  two  prec«*iing  forma. 

Form  No.  599  A,  A.  G.  O. 

This  form  constitutes  the  front  cover  for  the  semiannual  return  rendered  by  ordnance 
supply  officers  of  regiments,  battalions,  etc.,  supplied  with  equipment  "C"  as  lifted 
in  the  unit  equipment  manuata. 

Form  No.  599  B,  A.  G.  O. 
This  form  constitutes  the  back  cover  of  the  return. 

Form  No.  5»9,  A.  G.  O. 
This  form  constitutes  the  inside  sheets  of  the  return. 

Form  No.  600,  A.  G.  O. 

Transfer  of  property  (combination  blank,  invoice  or  receipt). 
Form  No.  601,  A.  G.  O. 

Certificate  of  expenditures  by  all  custodians  of  ordnance  property  except  rifle 
clubs,  and  schools  and  commanding  officers  of  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots. 

Form  No.  602,  A.  G.  O. 
Statement  of  charges  on  pay  rolls. 

Form  No.  603,  A.  G.  O. 

Due  certificate. 
Form  No.  604,  A.  G.  O. 

Requisition  receipt  expendable  articles  for  maintenance  of  equipment  "0." 

(b)  SPECIAL  FORMS. 

These  forms  constitute  the  inside  aheete  of  the  returns  made  on  Form  No.  j  S-cover 
and  on  Form  No.  18  cover  B.  They  are  provided  with  printed  headings  for  use  in 
accounting  for  articles  of  ordnance  property  that  are  in  general  use  in  the  service. 
These  forms  are  also  provided  with  a  limited  number  of  blank  headings  for  inserting 
such  descriptions  of  articles  as  pertain  to  the  property  covered  by  the  forms,  but  for 
which  printed  headings  ire  not  furnished. 

The  following  special  forms  are  denominated  and  the  articles  to  which  they  pertain 
are  described  according  to  the  classification  hereinbefore  given: 


110 

PART  1,   CLASS  I,    SECTION  8. 

Form  No.  1S-I-6  A. 
3-inch  saluting  gun,  with  its  mount,  spare  parts,  and  accessories. 

PART   1,   CLASH  II,   SECTION   7. 

Form  No.  1&-1I-7  B. 
Decapping,  cleaning,  and  priming  tools  for  the  3-inch  saluting  gun. 

PART   1,   CLASS   IV,    SECTION   1, 

Form  No.  IS-TV-l  A. 

Maxim  automatic  machine  gun,  cal.  .30,  model  of  1904,  and  special  spare  parts. 
Form  No.  18-IV-l  B. 

Tripod,  model  of  1904,  for  the  Maxim  automatic  machine  gun,  cal.  .30  and  parts. 
Form  No.  18-1V-1  C. 

Accessories  and  spare  parts  for  Maxim  automatic  machine  gun,  cal.  .30,  model  of 
1904. 

Form  No.  18-IV-4  D. 

Pack  outfits,  American  and  English  models,  for  Maxim  automatic  machine  gun, 
cal.  .30,  model  of  1904,  and  their  parts. 

Form  No.  18-1V-1  K. 
Automatic  machine  rifle,  cal.  30,  model  of  1909,  spare  parts,  tools,  and  accessories. 

PART  I,  CLASS  IV,  SECTION  3. 

Form  No.  18-IV-3  A. 

3-inch  field  gun,  model  of  1902,  and  parts. 
Form  No.  18-XV-3  B. 

3-inch  field  gun,  model  of  1904  and  1905,  and  parts. 
Form  No.  18-IV-3  G. 

3 -inch  field  carriage,  model  of  1902,  and  parts. 

Form  No.  18-1 V-3  D. 

3-inch  field  Umber,  model  of  1902,  and  parts. 
Form  No.  18-IV-3  E. 

3-inch  field  caisson,  model  of  1902,  and  parts. 

Form  No.  18-IV-3  F. 

Sights,  accessories,  tools,  implements,  and  equipments  for  the  3-inch  field  gune, 
models  of  1902,  1904,  and  1905. 

PART  1,  CLASS  IV,  SECTION   5. 

Form  No.  18-IV-5  A. 

Subcaliber  cartridges  and  drill  cartridges  for  the  2.95-inch  mountain  gun  and  the 
3-inch  field  "gun. 

PART  1,  CLASS  IV,  SECTION   8. 

Form  No.  18-IV-8  A. 
Harness  and  its  components  for  mobile  artillery,  exclusive  of  packing  outfits. 

PART   1,  CLASS   IV,  SECTION   9. 

Form  No.  18-IV-9  A. 
Forge  limber,  model  of  1902,  and  parts  peculiar  to  it. 


Form  No.  18-TV-9  B. 
Battery  wagon,  model  of  1902,  and  parts  peculiar  to  It. 

Form  No.  18-IV-9  C. 

Store  wagon  limber,  model  of  1902,  and  parts  peculiar  to  it. 
Form  No.  18-IV-9  D. 

Store  wagon,  model  of  1902,  and  parts  peculiar  to  it. 
Form  No.  18-IV-9  E. 

Implements,  equipments,  and  their  parts,  pertaining  to  mobile  artillery. 
Form  No.  18-IV-9  F. 

Ford  trucks,  spare  parts,  tools,  and  accessories. 

PART   1,  CLASS   V.   .SECTION   1. 

Form  No.  18-V-l  A. 
Range  finders  and  other  articles  for  the  fire  control  of  mobile  artillery. 

PART   1,  CLASS   V,  SECTION    3. 

Form  No.  18-V-3  A. 
Mobile  artillery  targets  and  target  accessories  and  supplies. 

PART   1,  CLASS   V,  SECTION   5. 

Form  No.  18-V-5  A. 
Decapping,  cleaning,  and  priming  tools  for  mobile  artillery. 

PART    1,  CLASS   VI,  SECTION   3. 

Form  No.  18-VI-3  A. 
Ammunition  and  its  components  for  the  3-inch  field  gun. 

PART   1,  CLASS   VII,  SECTION    1. 

Form  No.  18-VII-l  A. 

U.  S.  rifle,  model  of  1903,  spare  parts  and  appendages. 
Form  No.  18-VII-l  D. 

Gallery  practice  rifle,  model  of  1903,  and  appendages. 

PART   1,  CLASS   VH,   SECTION   2. 

Form  No.  18-VII-2  C. 
Automatic  pistols,  cal.  .45,  model  of  1911,  spare  parts  and  appendages. 

PART  1,  OLAS8  VH,  SECTION  5. 

Form  No.  18-VII-6  A. 

Sabers,  swords,  H.  C.  knives,  scabbards,  and  their  parts. 
Form  No.  18-VII-6  B. 

Knife  bayonet,  and  bayonet  scabbard,  models  of  1905.  and  their  parts. 

PART   1,  CLASS   VIII,  SECTION   1. 

Form  No.  18-VHI-l  A'. 

Ammunition,  for  the  U.  8.  rifle,  model  of  1903,  and  gallery  practice  rifle,  model  of 
1903. 

PART   1,  CLASS    VIII,  SECTION  2. 

Form  No.  18-VIII-2  A. 
Ammunition  for  pistols  and  revolvers. 


Form  No.  18-IX-l  A. 
Infantry  equipments,  standard,  and  components. 

PART   1,  CLASS  IX,  SECTION  2. 

Form  No.  18-IX-2  A. 
Cavalry  equipments,  standard,  and  components. 

PART   1,  CLASS  IX,  SECTION  6. 

Form  No.  18-IX-5  A. 
•Horse  equipments,  standard,  and  components. 

PART    1,  CLASS  IX,  SECTION  6. 

Form  No.  18-IX-6  A. 
Officers'  equipments  and  their  components  (personal  and  horse). 

Form  No.  18-X-l  A.] 
Arm  chests. 

Form  No.  18-X-l  B. 
Arm  racks. 

PART   1,  CLASS   X,  SECTION  2. 

Form  No.  18-X-2  A. 
Fencing  equipments,  cavalry  and  infantry. 

PART   1,  CLASS  X,   SECTION  3. 

Form  No.  18-X-3  A. 
Intrenching  tools. 

PAJtT  1,  CLASS  X,  SECTION  5. 

Form  No.  18-X-5  A. 

Marking  outfits. 
Form  No.  lg-X-5  B. 

Stencil  and  etching  outfits. 

PART   1,  CLASS  X,  SECTION  7. 

Form  No.  18-X-7A. 

Laidley  revolving  targets,  6  by  6  feet,  and  6  by  12  feet,  and  their  parts. 
Form  No.  18-X-7  C. 

Sliding  targets,  6  by  6  feet  and  6  by  12  feet,  and  iheir  parts. 
Form  No.  18-X-7  F. 

Target  interior  frames,  paper  targets,  centers  for  paper  targets,  and  pasters. 
Form  No.  18-  X-7  J. 

Accessories  for  small-arms  target  practice. 

PART   1,  CLASS'  X,  SECTION  8. 

Form  No.  18-X-8  C. 

Decapping  and  cleaning  tools  for  caliber  .30  cartridges,  models  of  3898  and  1906. 
and  caliber  .38  revolver  cartridges . 


113 

PART   1,  CLASS   X,  SECTION  P. 

Form  No.  18-X-9  B. 

Company  repair  kit,  model  of  1903  rifle. 
Form  No.  18-X-«<  1>. 

Blacksmith's  tools  for  all  organizations. 
Form  No.  18-X-4)  E. 

Carpenter's  tools  for  all  organizations. 

Form  NTo.  18-X-O  F. 
Saddler's  tools  ior  all  organizations. 

PAKT   1,  CLASS  X,  SECTION   10. 

Form  No.  18-X-10  A. 

('leaning  materials. 
Form  No.  18-X-10  B. 

ClotL,  rope,  thr  ;ad,  etc. 
Form  No.  18-X-10  C. 

Hardware. 
Form  No.  18-X-10  D. 

Leather,  hides,  etc. 
Form  No.  18-X-10  E. 

Oils,  etc. 

WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

OFFICE  or  TUB  CHIEF  or  OBWANCZ, 

Wuhington,  July  10, 1017. 
November  20, 1909. 
Revised  July  19,  1917. 
FORM  1012 
Ed.  May  fcl— K— 40,000. 

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WILLIAM  CROZIER, 
Brigadier  General,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 
WAB  DEPARTMENT, 

OFFICE  or  THE  CHIEF  or  ORDNANCE, 
UNITED  STATES  ABMY, 

October  a,  1917. 


INDEX. 


' 

Page.  ' 

Paragraph. 

A. 
Abstract  of  ptirchases  (Forms  Nos.  219,  220)  

104,  109 

134,  135,  214 

Abstract  of  sales  (Form  No.  322).  .•  

105,  109 

138,  214 

Abstract  of  transfers  (Forms  Nos.  274,  275)  

104,  105 

189,  214 

Material  expended  in  manufacture  of  tools 

156 

Material  expended  on  unfinished  work 

156 

Accessories  and  parts  issued,  seacoast  artillery.  .  ^.  

82 

Accountability,  property: 
Arsenals  ana  ordnance  depots  

38,191 

Articles  embraced  in  — 

192,  1J93 
192 

Second  division  (arsenal)   

193 

Blank  forms.    (See  Blank  forms.) 
Certificate  of  charges  against  responsible  officer  lo  the 
Treasury  Department       ..         

37 

Civil  employees.    (See  Employees,  civil.) 
Coast  defense  ordnance  officers 

A\  194 

Manner  of  keeping  record  cards                    

198 

When  succeeded  

201 

(tommanding  officers  — 
Arsenals  and  other  ordnance  establishments 

38 

Coast  Artillery  oofflpaniff? 

225 

Posts  

42 

District  of  Columbia.     (See  District  of  Columbia.) 
Division  of  property..                       ...            ..-. 

191  194 

Duplicates  of  invoices,  returns,  and  vouchers,  furnished 
from  ordnance  office 

216 

Educational    institutions.     (See    Educational    institu 
tiona.) 
Equipment  "C" 

205  206 

Equipment  in  possession  of  recruit  detachments    .  . 

126 

Executive  departments.     (See  Executive  departments.") 
For  articles  purchased 

134,  135 

Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.     (See  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic.) 
High  schools.     (See  High  schools.) 
Homes  for  Disabled,  Volunteer  Soldiers.     (See  Home  for 
Disabled  Volunteer  Soldiers.) 
Horse  equipments.     (See  Officers;  District  of  Columbia 
Police.) 
In  field 

45 

Materiel  officers  to  certify  to  inventory  of  ammunition. 

225 

Memorandum  receipts  — 

Batteries                      . 

205 

Companies  ....... 

205,206 

Detachments 

205 

Officers          .     ....... 

205 

Troops           ....   ...         

205 

National    Guard.    (See    National    Guard,    District   of 
Columbia.) 
Officers  — 
Horse  equipment  (Form  18—  A)..'.  .,..  

108 

43,  207 

Ordnance  p^jflt  regimen  Uii,  or  coaat  d^fenafr  ,  ..      j 

39,40.41,42 

When  none  at  post.  . 

42 

(H6) 


117 


Page. 


Accountability,  property — Continued. 

Ordnance  sergeants , 

Orphans '  homes.    (See  Orphans '  homes. ) 

Personal  equipment,  detached  soldiers 

Police.    (See  District  of  Columbia.1) 

Property  and  disbursing  officers 

Fr<>i>erty  in  possession  of  discharged  Enlisted  Reserve 

Corps 

Register  of  vouchers,  method  of  preparing 

Returns  (see  also  Returns,  property) — 

Arsenals,  first  division .• , 

Arsenals,  second  division 

Coast  defense,  first  division 

Coast  defense,  second  division 

Method  of  making  entries  when  transfer  occurs 

Object  of . 

When  to  be  forwarded 

Rifle  clubs.     (See  Rifle  clubs.) 
Sales.     (See  Sales.) 

Settlement  of,  by  agent 

Sitrnal  Corps  sergeant , 

Soldiers  killed 

Stores — 

For  drill  and  instruction 

For  ornamental  purposes 

Loaned 

Suit  for  delinquency 

Transfers — 

From  one  commanding  officer  to  another 

From  one  form  of  return  to  another 

On  return,  illustrated 

When  complete 

Vouchers.    (See  Vouchers;  Property  nomenclature.) 

Accounts,  settlements  of,  by  company  commander 

Accumulations,  recoveries,  etc.,  of  ordnance  property: 

Captured  or  abandoned 

Found  in  excess 

Not  previously  accounted  for  or  covered  by  invoice.  . .  . 

Recovery  of  lost  and  abandoned  property 

Scrap  from  manufacturing  operations 

Shipments  less  than  100  pounds,  not  to  be  made 

Shipments  over  100  pounds  to  be  made  when  convenient . 
Advance  depots,  property  supplied  directly  from  parent 

depot 

Adjutants  general  of  States  and  District  of  Columbia  to 

approve  requisitions  of  rifle  clubs 

Advertisement — Sale  of  condemned  property 

Allowances: 

Ammunition.. 


Expendable  articles. 


When  exceeded,  how  charged 

Affidavits: 

As  to  want  of  transportation  required  of  quartermaster. . 

Loss  of  property  by  executive  departments  or  District 
of  Colunpia  police : 

Property  lost  in  engagement 

Required  when  not  practicable  to  appoint  surveying 
officer 

To  cover  loss,  damage,  or  destruction  of  property 

To  cover  loss  of  property,  records,  etc.  (nee  also  Certifi- 
cates)  


Paragraph. 

42.58 

126 

47,130 

17 
209 

192 
193 

194, 196 
194 

209, 222 
190 
223 


240 
42 

75 

51 

52 

52 

239,241 

222 

202, 221 
222 
209 

32 

147 
145 
144 
146 
143 
115 
U5 

91 

98 
140 

150,151, 

152. 153 
148, 149, 150, 

151,152, 

153. 154 
151 

166 

177 
167 

165 
159, 161 

31,32 


118 


Agents,  settlement  of  accountability  by , 

Ammunition: 

Accountability  for,  in  field 

Allowances  of — 

Artillery,  field  and  seacoast . «... ... 

Based  on  appropriation  of  Congress 

Expended  at  arsenals. '. j,. 

Expenditures  by  rifle  clubs  and  schools 

Inventory  required 

National  Guard 

Published  in  War  Department  orders. 

Small  arms ,..., 

When  exceeded,  how  charged 

Certificates  as  fc>  quantities  actually  on  hand 

Classification  of 

Disposition  of,  when  taken  from  wounded  or  sick  sol- 
dier. . ' 

Educational  institutions . 

How  expended — 

Lose,  damage,  or  wrongfully  disposed  of 

Older  models  for  artillery  instructions  at  institutions 

Orphans'  homes 

Projectiles  for  target  practice 

Requisitions  for 


Responsibility  for,  in  field . 

Rifle  clubs. 

Salutes 

Schools,  for  target  practice. 
Target  practice 


Appendix,  forms  required  in  accounting  for  property. ..... 

Applications  for  blank  forms 

Armament: 

Equipment  and  uniform  of  National  Guard  (same  as  for 

Regular  Army) -. .  ~ 

Seacoast,  cannon  and  carriages,  not  to  be  tmnsf erred ... 

Seacoaetj  maintenance  of 

Armament  districts,  establishment  and  maintenance  of: 
Mobile  artillery — 

Army 

National  Guard 

Seacoast  artillery — 

Army 

National  Guard 

Armament  officers: 

Action  on  requisition  for  articles  not  standard 

In  charge  of  armament  districts 

Inspections  of  seacoast  and  mobile  armament 

Memorandum  invoice  and  receipt 

Repairs  to  mobile  artillery 

Sea  coast,  maintenance  ®f  armament 

Armories  provided  by  States,  Territories,  and  District  of  Co- 
lumbia. .- 

Arm  racks  and  lockers: 

In  garrison. 

Not  required  in  field 

Safe-keeping  of  small  arms 


Small  arms  to  be  checked  in  and  out. 


Page. 


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240 
45 

150 

150, 152 
156 
157 

224, 225,  226 
153 

150,152,153 
150 
151 

224,  225 
53 

72 

22, 95, 96, 97 

5,148 

34, 45, 36 

22 

21,95 
68 

80,  81,83,95, 

96, 97, 101 

45 

26,  98, 157 
148 

26,  97, 157 

21,  22,28,95, 

97, 98, 150 

100 


7 

108 
155 


56,78 
77,78 

55, 78,  *2 
78 

84 

55,56 

78 

133 

87, 88, 94 
82 

76 

62,174 
6$ 

61,62, 

63, 174 

64 


119 


Arms  and  ammunition: 

Classification  of 

leeued  lor  protection  of  Government  property 

Issued  to  National  Guard  on  requisition  of  governor,  etc 

Lose,  damage,  or  wrongfully  disposed  of 

Rifle  clubs  and  schools 

Soldiers  wounded,  sick,  or  killed 

Target  practice 

Arms  and  equipment: 

Classification  of 

Enlisted  Reserve  Corps 

For  instructions  of  citizens 

For  schools  and  colleges 

Issued  to  National  Guard  on  requisition  of  governors,  etc. 

Loss,  damage,  or  wrongfully  disposed  of 

National  Guard,  same  as  for  Armv 

New  types  of,  furnished  National  Guard  without  charge 
therefor.. 


No  money  credit  for  obsolete  property  replaced.. 
Procurement  and  issue  to  National  Guard 


Soldiers  wounded,  sick,  or  killed 
Army,  Regular.    (See  Regular  Army.) 

Army  service  schools,  returns,  how  rendered 

Arsenals: 

Ammunition  expended  in  test 

Authorized  to  purchase  envelopes 

Badges,  medals,  and  insignia  issued  direct 

Cartridge  cases,  bandoleers,  clips,  etc.,  to  be  turned  in 

Commanding  officers'  accountability  and  responsibility. 

Condemned  property — 

Ordered  turned  in 

Saleaof 

Which  can  not  be  suitable  fur  issue 

Exchange  of  property 

Expenditures 

Inventories. . 


Loss  or  deficiency  in  shipment  to  and  from  National 
Guard 

Name  of,  to  which  requisition  from  various  departments 
shall  be  made 

National  Guard,  repairs  to  battery  material 

Obsolete  property  to  be  used  in  manufacturing 

Reports  required  by  Chief  of  Ordnance 

Requisition  between  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots 

Requisitions  for  articles  not  procurable  at  one  arsenal 
forwarded 

Requisitions  for  stationery  (Form  No.  389  > 

Requisitions  to  be  filled  only  to  extent  authorized 

Transfers  of  property  between 

Transfers  of  property  to  troops 

Transfers  of  surplua'property  t0 

Artillery  material,  older  models  of  ammunition  for  instruc- 
tion of  students 

Artillery,  mobile: 

Alteration  and  improvement  of 

Ammunition.    (S>c  Ammunition.) 

Classification  of  property 

Maintenance  ana  improvement  of,  National  Guard.. . . . 

National  Guard  batteries,  repairs  to 

Repairs — 

Arsenals  to  which  articles  should  be  shipped 

Assignment  of  mechanics 


Pago. 


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53 
5 
8 

b4,  35,  36 

20,  208 

72 

26,28 

53 
17 
16 

18,  19,  20 
8 

34,  35,  36 
7 

9 

10 

8 

72,  73,  74,  75 

203 


99 
127 
119 

38 

115 
140 

172 
111 
156 

217,218, 
219,  227 

176 

85 
118 
158 
243 

90 

86 

99 

86 

104 

102 

106 

22 
56,78 

53 

77 

94,118 

87 
88,  94 


120 


Page. 

Paragraph. 

Artillery,  mobile  —  Continued. 
Repairs  —  Continued. 
By  whom  

S7.94 
94 
118 
118 

83 
2-12 

55,  78,  82 

53 
108 

137 

127 
119 
205 
186 
212 

100 

203 
127 

205 
212 
95 

96 
193 
137 

169 
204 
154,  155 
157 
93 

205 
203 

National  Guard  batteries.  .'.  

Repairs  which  can  not  be  made  at  station  

When  made  at  arsenals  

Requisitions     .          ... 

Reports  by  accountable  officers  of  Form  No.  87  '  

Artillery,  eeacoast:  __ 
Alteration  and  improvement  of  ....'  

Ammunition.    (See  Ammunition.) 
Classification  of  -  

Transfers  not  to  be  made  between  posts  

Auditor  for  the  War  Department,  purchases  involving  pay- 
ment by  i  

B. 
Badges,  medals,  and  insignia,  issue  of  

Bandoleers  

Battalion  ordnance  officers                 .          

Beltin<r  how  accounted  for  .         

Binders  for  vouchers  .     .     .     ... 

Blank  forms:  _ 
\pplications  for 

Army  service  school,   museum,   semiannual   between 
(Form  No-.  17)  

104 

Badges,  medals,  and  insignia  issued  (Form  No.  146A)... 

Battalions  (loose-leaf  Forms  Nos.  599,  599a,  5991),  A.  G. 
O.)  

109 
104,  108 

Binder,  cardboards  for  vouchers  (Forms  Nos.  22,  23,  24, 
25"i  

Bonds,  educational  institutions  and  orphans'  homes 
(  Form  No.  1422}  

Bonds,  educational  institutions,  act  of  Congress,  June  3. 
1916(iuinishedby  Q.  M.G.).  

Card  property  return  for  arsenals  (Form  No.  17)  

104 
105 

104,109 
108 
108 
108 

Certificate  of  inspection  and  receipt  (Form  No.  1066)  
Charges;  pay  roll,  statement  for  property  return  (Form 
No.  (i02,  A.  G.  O.)  

Educational  institutions,  returns  (Forms  No.  18  and  18, 
cover)  

Exnenditutes  (Forms  Nos.  G01  and  604,  A.  G.  O.,  (Form 
No.lf/-B)  

Expenditures,  ammunition  by  rifle  clubs  and  schools 
(Form  No.  19-B)  

Fiold  Artillery  and  foot  and  mounted  troops  (Form  No. 
386) 

Field  hospital,  loose-leaf  returns  (Forms  Nos.  599,  599a, 
and  599b,  A.  G.  CO                             

109 
108 

104,  105 
105-107 

Field  ordnance  depots  (Forms  Nos.  18  and  18,  cover,  B^  . 
For  commanding  officers  of  arsenals  — 
General  forms                                                 .        • 

Special  forms 

For  officers  and  custodians  other  than  officers  of  arsenals  — 
General  forms                                                     •   ...   • 

108  109 
109-113 

Special  forms                                    .    -•  

Tnvontnrips  it  Arqpnala  ("Forms  NrML  Q7    98    99  i 

227 
170 

203 
203 

204,209 

I  nveiitory  and  inspection  reports                              ...... 

105,  109 

108 
108 

108 

Inspectors  of  ordnance,  returns  (Forms  Noe.  18  and  18, 
cover.  B)                      

Poet  ordnance  officers  (Forms  Nos.  18  and  18,  cover,  B). 
Property  and  disbursing  officers  (Forms  Nos.  18  and  18, 
cover,  B).. 

121 


Blank  forms — Continued. 
Purchases — 

Abstract  of  (Forma  Nos.  219,  220) 

Inspection  and  receipt  (Form  No.  1066) 

Regiments,  loose-leaf  returns  (Forma  Nos.  599,  599a, 

599b,  A.  G.  O.) 

Register  of  vouchers  (Forms  NOB.  18  and  18,  cover,  B) . . 

Register  of  vouchers,  arsenal  returns  (Form  No.  16) , 

Register  of  vouchers  for.  coast  defense  returns  (Forms 

Nos.  17-B  and  17-B-l) 

Report  of  operations  (Forma  Nos.  1243,  1244) 

Re|x>rts  on  ordnance  property  (Forma  Nos.  21,  70A, 

70B,  84,  87 

Reports  of  survey  (Form  No.  196,  A.  G.  O.). 

Requisitions-^- 

Field  artillery  and  foot  and  mounted  trooi  s  (Form 

No.  386) 

Pamphlets 

Seacoant  artillery  (Form  No.  388) 

Stationery  and  blank  forms,  arsenals 

Returns,  property — 

Arsenals,  first  division  (Forms  Nos.  15,  15,  cover, 

front.  15,  cover,  back,  and  16) 

Arsenals,  second  division  (Form  No.  17) 

Coast  defenses,  first  and  second  division  (Forms  Nos. 

17a,  17c,  18  and  18.  cover,  B) 

Horse  equipments,  officers'  (Form  No.  18a) 

Rifle  clubs  and  schools  (Form  No.  18-B) 

Sales- 
Abstract  of  (Form  No.  322) 

Advertisement  of  (Form  No.  561) 


Condemned  property. 
Receipt  (Form  No.  147) 


fceacoast  armament  (Form  No.  388) , 

School  of  musketry  museum  return  (Form  No.  17) 

Surveying  officers,  reports  of 

Transfer  of  accountability  by  coast  defense  ordnance 

officers  (Form  No.  17-D) 

TranHter,  general,  property,  invoice  and  receipt,  no 

copies  required  (Form  No.  600,  A.  G.  O.) 

Transfers  in  classes  of  articles  at  arsenals,  etc.  (Forms 

Nos.  274  and  275) 

Transfers,  invoice  and  receipt,  detached  soldier  (Form 

No.  152) 

Transfers,  invoice  and  receipts,  detachments  of  recruits 

(FormsNos.  152-D  and  153) 

Bonds  for  safe  keeping  of  property: 
Educational  institutions. . . 


Form  No.  1422 

High  schools,  District  of  Columbia 

Institutions  having  Reserve  Officers  Training  Corps 

Orphans  homes 

Rifle  clubs 

Schools,  when  signed  by  individual 

Value  of  loss,  etc.,  charged 

Boxes  or  chests: 

Marking 

Received  in  bad  condition 

Sealing 

When  V)  be  accounted  for 

Brass  scrap 

_  When  and  where  to  be  shipped : 

Buildings,  description  and  accountability 


Page. 


104,109 
105 


104 


105 

'io5,"i69 


104 
104 

108 
108 


105, 109 


104 


104, 109 

104,105 

104, 108 

108 


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134 
137 

205 

209 

192,  217 

195 
136 

242 
160 


93 

100 

93 

99 


192 
193 

194, 197 
207 
208 

138 
140 
140 
139 
93 
203 
160 

201 
120 
189 
126 
126 

19, 20,23, 95, 

96,97, 178 

95 

13 

14 

23,95 

98 

97 

178 

123 
124 
122 
185 

114, 170 

170 

53,186,219 


122 


C. 
Camps  of  instruction: 

For  citizens 

For  Reserve  Officers  Training  Corps 

Canteens  and  haversacks: 

In  war.  may  be  transferred  to  another  oiganization 

Marked ,  retained  until  unserviceable 

Captured  property: 

Disposition  of 

List  of,  with  circumstances  to  be  reported 

Cards,  record  (coast  defense  returns) : 

Additional,  uee  of 

All  available  space  used  on 

Certificates  of  accountability  made  semiannually... 

Coast  defense  ordnance  officer — 

Manner  of  keeping 

Transfers  from  one  form  to  another 

Entries  made  when  transactions  occur 

First  division  returns 


Not  considered  active  when  property  is  exhausted 

Returns,  property " ". 

When  transmitted  to  Chief  of  Ordnance 

Care  and  preservation  of  ordnance  property: 

By  rifle  clubs  and  schools .". 

Expenses  of,  by  educational  institutions,  homes,  etc. . . 

Office,  liability,  for 

Optical  instruments 

Soldiers,  killed,  property  secured 

Spare  parts  and  materials  for,  described  in  price  lists 

and  pamphlets 

Cartridge  cases: 

Fired,  not  kept  in  rifle  longer  than  necessary 

Fired,  to  be  turned  m 

Oil  and  greasa,  application  of.  prohibited 

Precaution  for  safe-keeping  of,  for  cannon 

Safe-keeping  of,  in  garrison,  for  cannon 

Safe-keeping  of,  in  field,  for  cannon 

Certificates: 

Accumulations  of  scrap. 

Affidavits  to  cover  loss  of  property 

As  to  want  of  transportation  required  by  commanding 
officer... 

As  return  of  property,  first  division  coasf  defenses 

Destruction  of  condemned  articles  at  arsenals 

Expenditures 


Inspection  and  receipt. 

Inventory  of  ammunition — 

Small  arms 

Artillery 

List  of  obsolete  articles  desired  to  be  used  in  manufac- 
turing.  

Loss,  damage,  or  destruction  of  property  by  civil  em- 
ployees  „... 

Nonimlebtcdness , 

Of  purchaser  required 

Property  found  in  excess 

Property  not  previously  accounted  for  or  covered  by 
invoice 

Recovery  of  lost  or  abandoned  property 

Sent  to  Treasury  for  debiting  accounts'. 

To  cover  complete  transfer  of  property. 

To  cover  loss,  damage,  or  destruction'of  property 


Page. 


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16 

15 

110 
110 

1-17 
147 

200 
2CO 
107 

If  8 
202 
196 

194,  195, 

196,  197 

Iii9 

194 

196,  201 

238 
79 

44 
69 

75 

54 

67 

119 

67 

59 

G6 
174 


31,82 

166 

197,  198 

172 

148,154. 

155,  214 
137 

224 

225 


175 

234,  236 
139 
145 

144 

116 

37 

209 

159, 161 


123 


Certificates — Continued. 

Transfers  of  accountability  by  coast  defense  ordnance 
officer 

Transfers  of  accountability  by  commanding  officers  of 
ars.  •  nal  s 

Witness  of  destruction  of  condemned  property 

Certificate!  of  npnindebtedness 

Charges: 

Against,  officers  and  agents 

Against  responsible  officer  for  loss,  damage,  or  destruc- 
tion of  property 

Pay  roll,  statement  for  property  return j 

Chests  or  boxes: 

Marking 

Received  in  bad  condition 

Sealing 

When  to  be  accounted  for •. 

Chief  of  Ordnance: 

Duties  of 

Reports  of  officers  and  enlisted  men  and  ordnance  stores. 

To  make  rules  and    regulations    for    government    of 
Ordnance  Department 

Transfer,  between  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots,  on 

order  of 

Chief  ordnance  officers: 

Captured  property  to  be  turned  over  to 

In  charge  of  supplies  for  troops  operating  in  field 

Citizens,  training  camps  for  instructions  of 

Civil  employees.    (See  Employees,  civil.) 

Classification  of  ordnance  property 

Must  be  given  on  invoices  and  receipts 

Cleaning,  preserving,  and  marking  supplies: 

Land  defense 

Seacoast  artillery 

Clips,  cartridge 

Coaat  Artillery: 

Accountability,  property  method  of  memorandum  re- 
ceipts prescribed 


Page. 


Equipment  0 

Coast  defense  ordnance  officers. 


Accountability  of. 


List  of  articles  issued  on  requisition 

Manner  of  keeping  record  cards 

Memorandum  invoice  and  receipt 

One  in  each  district 

Purchases  by 

Transfers,  one  form  of  return  to  another 

Transfers,  property,  when  succeeded 

Coast  defense  commander,  quarterly  reports  on  (Forms  Nos. 

70-A  and  70-B) 

Colleges.    (See  Educational  institutions.) 

Commanding  officers,  responsibility  or  accountability  of: 

Arsenals  and  other  ordnance  establishments ' 

Companies,  troops,  batteries,  and  detachments i...j 

Poets 

Responsible  that  his  equipment  is  complete  and  service- 
able  

To  keep  record  of  time  of  mechanics  on  repairs 

Common  carrier,  property  lost  or  damaged  in  transit 


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201 

222 

170 

234, 236 

37 

159, 1GI 
169 

123 
124 
122 
185 

1,2,3 
29 

29 
104 

147 
45 
16 

53 
120, 215 

82 

82 

119 


206 
206 
39, 

41,  80,  81,  82, 

194,1»8,  201, 

202,  206,209 

39, 

41,194,  209 
82 
198 
133 
206 
135 
202 
201 

242 


38,70 
39.41 
44,58 

87 

87 

163,164 


124 


Condemned  property: 

Destruction  of,  to  be  certified  by  witness 

Disposition  of 

Packing  for  transportation 

Rings,  buckles,  etc.,  cut  off  and  turned  in 

Sale  of 

Shipment  of,  under  100  pounds 

Containers,  when  entered  on  vouchers 

Contracts: 

Articles  procured  under 

Deductions  under,  for  property  issued  to  contractors. . 
Corporals,  reports  and  returns  at  garrisoned  posts,  made  by. 

Cost  of  repairs  or  damages  due  to  abuse  or  neglect 

Countershaf  ting,  htfw  accounted  for 

Counterweights,  lead,  precautions: 

For  safe-keeping 

Safe-keeping  of,  in  field 

Courts-martial: 

Failure  to  render  returns .' 

For  loss  of  property  through  neglect 

Property  illegally  disposed  of 

Custodians  of  ordnance  property , 

Settlement  of  return- by  agent 


I'age. 


D. 

Damages,  or  repairs  to  arms,  equipments,  etc.,  due  to  abuse 

or  neglect,  to  whom  charged 

Deductions  for  deficiencies  cf  articles 

Deficiency  at  arsenals  shown  by  inventory i 

Deficiency  or  loss: 

By  unavoidable  accident ^ i 

In  shipment  to  and  from  National  Guard i 

Deficiency  on  final  settlements  of  accounts  of  officers. ......! 

Deficiency  of,  or  damage  to,  military  supplies j 

Departments,  executive.    (See  Executive  departments.) 

Department  ordnance  officers,  action  on  requisitions 

Depot  ordnance  officers 

Depots  at  training  camps,  requisition  by  commanding  officers. 
Depots  of  ordnance: 

Establishment  of 

Mobile  artillery  turned  in  for  repairs - 

Destruction  of  property: 

By  whom  authorized 

Certificate  required .* 

Dismissal  for  making  false  return. . ; . . . 

Disbursing  officer;  abstract  of  purchases  forwarded  with 

money  accounts . . . , 

Dispatch  cases  held  under  memorandum  receipt 

Disposition  and  Replacement  of  damaged  property,  etc 

District  of  Columbia  property: 

Armory,  safe-keeping  ordnance  property 

Lost  or  destroyed 

Returns.    (See  Returns,  property.) 
Rifle  clubs,  requisitions  to  be  approved  by  Adju- 
tant General 

Transfers  to '. 

High  schools — 

Accountability,  by  whom  rendered 

Bond  for  safe-keeping .* 

Issued  to 

Responsibility  of .' 


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170 

112, 113 
117 

114, 170 
140 
115 
185 

137 

129 

58 

30 

186 

59,66 
174 

33 
34 

34,  35,  36 

38-52 

240 


30 
31 

217 


30, 


170, 


32 

176 

31 

163,178 

84 
45 
92 

3 

57 

172 

172, 173 
33 

134, 135 

133 

11 

76 
177 


105 

49 
13 
13 
49 


125 


I'agc. 


Paragraph. 


District  of  Columbia  property — Continued. 
National  Guard  (tee  also  National  Guard) — 

Appointment  of  property  and  disbursing  officer 12 

Armory,  suitable,  required 76 

.Laws  relating  to • i 7-12 

Muster  out 130 

No  money  credit  for  obsolete  property  replaced 1 10 

Not  to  be  charged  for  new  types  of  new  arms  and 

equipment , Q 

Repairs 94 

Return 1 209, 223 

Police- 
Horse  equipments j f>,46 

Lost  or  destroyed 177 

Divisions  of  property 191. 194 

Drill  and  instruction,  property  lasucd 31,  58 

Dust,  injurious  effect  on  optical  instruments. G9 

E. 
Educational  institutions: 

Allowances,  ammunition — 

Based  on  appropriations  by  ( 'onpress j I  152 

Bond  to  cover  losses i 178 

Expenditures  of  ammunition ' 157 

For  instruction j 152 

Published  in  War  Department  orders. ". ' !  152 

Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps,  stores  lost  by 179 

Bonds,  kind  and  execution  of. : . . .        19.  20.  !>3, 

05, 96, 97 

Care  and  preservation  of  property,  expense  charge  to 79 

Classification  of  property .         53 

Failure  to  render  returns !  237, 238, 239 

Having  units  of  Reserve  Officers '  Training  ( 'orps •  14 

High  schools,  District  of  Columbia ; 13,49 

Issues  of  property  to 18-27 

Military  equipment  and  instructors 18 

Requisitions.    (6'ce  Requisitions.) 

Responsibility  and  accountability  of 50, 51 

Returns—- 
By whom  rendered 50, 51, 208 

Failure  to  render 237 

How  rendered 204, 208 

Target  practice,  ammunition,  etc.,  for : 21. 22 

Transfers  of  property  to 105 

War  Department,  detailed  instructions  as  to  issues 95, 96 

Embezzlement  of  property  or  money 36 

Emergency: 

Requisition  made  directly  between  arsenals  and  ord- 
nance depots 90, 93 

Special  inspector  to  act  upon  unserviceable  property : 171 

Employees,  civil: 

Charged  for  defective  work 175 

Lost  or  abandoned  property  recovered ., 146 

Property  intrusted  to 70 

Property  lost,  damaged,  or  ''«-*royed  by 175 

Empty  packing  boxes  for  caliber  .80  ammunition 119 

Encouragement  of  rifle  practice 28 

Enlisted  men: 

Charged  for  loss  of  property,  surveying  officer  requested 

by.- 160 

Charges  on  muster  and  pay  roll 168, 169 

Detached  personal  equipment. of ..*......  •  126 

I  ost  or  abandoned  property  recovered M6 


126 


Enlisted  men — Continued. 

Resj>onsibility  of,  for  small  arms 

Small  arms  issued  to  or  received  from 

Transferred  from  recruit  depot  in  detachments 

Enlisted  Reserve  Corps 

Equipment: 

C  lassiiication  of 

Detachments  of  recruits 

Enlisted  Reserve  Corps 

For  instructions  of  citizens 

For  schools  and  colleges ,. 

Held  under  memorandum  receipts — 

Equipment  "C  " 

Garrison 

Horse 

Horse — 

For  officers  furnished  by  United  States 

Issue  to  police,  District  of  Columbia 

Loss,  damage  or  wrongfully  disposed  of 

National  Guard — 

Armament  and  equipment  same  as  Army 

New  types  of,  furnished  without  charge  therefor. 

No  money  credit  for  obsolete  types  replaced 

Personal  equipment  of  detached  soldiers 

Equipment  "C": 

Accountability  for ...;..* 

Maintenance  of ^ 

Eirore  or  irregularities  in  returns 


Examination  and  settlement  of  returns. . . 
Excess  property: 

Found  on  hand , 

Not  on  return 

Reported  by  inspector 

Exchange  of  ordnance  property 

Executive  department: 

Issues  of  arms  and  ammunition  io 

Lost  or  destroyed 

Purchased  from 

Responsibility  and  accountability  for. 

Transfer  of  property ^ 

Expenditure  of  ordnance  property 

Ainmuniti6n... 


Articles  expendable — 

Classification  of 

Definition  of , 

Indicated  in  price  lists  (Ordnance  Pamphlet  No. 

1970) 

Certificates  of,  how  signed 

Cleaning  and  repairing  supplies,  allowances  of 

In  manufactures 

'"Materials"  and  "'supplies, "  terms  denned.  

Obsolete,  used  in  manufacture 

Spare  parts  cannon,  etc.,  submitted  to  inspector 

Statements  of,  various,  illustrated 

Vouchers  not  to  cover  expendable  articles  lost  or  stolen . 

When  alloxvsuice  is  exceeded 

Expenses  in  connection  with  sales 


Page. 


Paragraph. 


63 

64 

126 

17 

53 

126 

17 

16 

18, 19, 20 

133 
133 
133 

4, 43,  207 

6 

34,  35,  36 


10 
126 

205,  206 

154, 155 

228.  229, 

230,  231, 

232,  233 

228 

145 
71 
71 

111 

5 

177 

137 

48 

128, 132 

148-158 

148.  150, 

152, 157 

156 
148 

149 
214 
149 
156 
156 
158 
149 
156 
154 
151 
114 


127 


F. 


False  returns,  penalty 

Field  artillery.     (Sic  Artillery,  mobile.) 
Ffeld  ordnance  depots: 

Commanding  officert  of,  make  requisitions  on  arsenals  or 
depot 

Returns,  property,  how  rendered 

Transfers,  property,  when  complete,  method  of  entering 

on  returns , 

Field,  troope  operating  in: 

A  rru  racks  and  lockers  not  required 

In  war,  condemned  property  turned  in 

Precautions  of  safe  keeping  property 

Repairs  to  mobile  artillery 

Requisitions  for  ordnance  property 

Reserves  of  ammunition  and  ordnance  properly 

Responsibility  and  accountability  for  property 

Transfers  of  property  to 

Transfers  of  surplus  property 

Fire-control  instruments: 

<  Justification  of 

Repairs  to 

Requisitions  for 

Fired  shells.     (See  Cartridge  cases.) 

Fixtures,  not  on  drawing,  how  described 

Forms.,  blank.     (See  Blank  forms.) 
Funds: 

National  Guard — 

Allotments 

No  money  credit  for  obsolete  property  replaced 

Property  and  disbursing  officers  to  account  for 

Sales,  proceeds  of 


O. 

Garrisoned  posts: 

Ordnance  sargeants  and  enlisted  men,  prepare  reports 

and  returns 

Small  arms  locked  in  racks  or  lockers  when  not  in  mili- 
tary- use 

Small  arms,  loet 

Small  arms  to  be  returned  after  completion  of  military 

duty 

Governors  of  States  and   Territories.     (See  also   National 
Guard): 
Educational  institution-*,  requisition  to  bo  approved  by. . 

National  Guard,  requisition  for 

Grand  Army  of  the  Republic: 

Loans,  gifts,  and  transfers  to 

Responsibility  ami  accountability  for  property 


II. 


Hangers,  how  accounted  for 

Heating  plant,  how  accounted  for 

High  schools,  District  of  Columbia 

Homes  for  disabled  volunteer  soldiers: 

Issues,  obsolete  property  for  ornamental  purposes 

Responsibility  and  accountability  for  property 

Horse  equipment: 

Accountability 

District  of  Columbia  responsible,  superintendent  of 
police  accountable , 


Page. 


Paragraph. 


33 


91 
203 

209 

63 

116 

174 

57 

89 

45 

45 

102. 103 
109 

53 

-      87 
82 

184 


8 

10 

12 

141 


58 

62 
174 

65 


95,  96,  97 
8 

24,105 
52 


1S6 

186 

13,49 

25 

52 

207 
46 


128 


Horse  equipment — Continued. 

Furnished  olliccrs  below  grade  of  major  (Form  No. 

18-A) __.... 

Issue  of  unserviceable  to  District  of  Columbia  police 

Responsibility  and  accountability  of  officers  below  grade 

of  major 

Hospital,  field: 

Accountability 

Accumulation  of  arms  and  equipments  to  be  turned  in 

to  arsenals 

Disposition  of  arms  and  equipments  of  wounded  or  sick 

soldiers 

Surgeon  to  receipt  for  arms  and  equipments  of  sick  or 

wounded  soldier 

Hunting  allowances,  ammunition  for 


I. 
Inspector: 

( 'are  to  be  exercised  in  selection  of 

To  be  furnished  copy  of  invoice  to  contractor 

Inspections: 

Property,  excess  or  surplus 

Seacoast  and  mobile  armament  by  armament  officers..  - 

Surplus  property  reported  upon .' 

Target  practice  projectiles 

Unserviceable  stores 

Inspecting  instruments,  classification  of 

Inspectors  of  ordnance: 

Reports  required  by  Chief  of  Ordnance 

•    Returns,  how  rendered 

Inspection  and  receipt.     (See  Certificate?,  inspection  and 

receipt.) 
Inspection  reports: 

Action  in  case  of  sales. . .  .• 

Disposition  pf  stores 

Insignia,  issue  of 

Issues  of  property  to  executive  departments 

Inventories,  ordnance  property 

Ammunition—- 

Artillery 

Small  arms 

Arsenals. . . 


Page. 


108 


Prices  of  articles  shown  en  first  division  returns  for 
June  30 

Surpluses  and  shortages,  accounting  for 

Surpluses  and  deficiencies  shown  by 

When  required 

Inventory,  excess  and  surplus  f und 

Inventory  and  inspection  reports: 

Extract  copies  to  accompany  invoice 

Preparation  of 

Serial  numbers  and  model  of  rifles,  pistols,  and  revolvers 

indicated  on 

Invoice  and  receipt  for  transfer  (see  also  Property): 

Cost  prices  to  be  stated  on  invoices 

Description  of,  h,ow  prepared  and  executed 

Page  numbers  of  returns  entered  on , 

Property  not  covered  by  invoice 

Serial  numbers  when  used 

Transfers,  to  contractors 


Paragraph. 


4,  43,  207 
6 

43 

205 

74 

73 

74 
150 


171 
129 

71 
78 
71 
68 
171 
53 

243 

203 


170,  172 

170,  172 

127 

5 

224-227 

225.  226 

224,226 

2J7, 

218,  219,  227 


217,  218 
217 

224,  226 
145 

170 
170 

188 

131 

210,  211,  214 
213 

144 

187,  188 
129 


129 


L. 

Lampe  and  other  parts  of  fire-control  system,  issued  to  sca- 

coaet  artillery " 

Laws,  relating  to  ordnance  property 

Lighting  plant,  how  accounted  for ^ 

Lockers.    (See  Arm  racks  and  lockere.) 
Lose,  damage  or  destruction  of  property: 

Abandoned  for  want  of  transportation 

Abandoned  or  destroyed  during  campaign 

Affidavits  to  cover 

By  civil  employees,  at  arsenals 

By  enlisted  men,  disposed  of  improperly I 

By  enlisted  Reserve  Corps -. 

Certified  to  proper  accounting  officer 

Charged  to  accountable  officer 

Charged  to  responsible  officer  or  enlisted  man 

Charges  on  muster  and  pay  roll 

Common  carrier,  responsibility. 

Damaged  en  route 

Deficiency  in  invoice,  reported 

Deficiency  or  loss  by  unavoidable  accident,  etc.,  affi- 
davit  '. 

Deficiency  or  damage  on  final  settlement  of  officers,  how 
charged 

Deficiency  to  and  from  National  Guard 

Desertion,  action 

District  of  Columbia,. police 

During  engagement .  I . . . 

Educational  institutions. .>. 

Enlisted  men,  charged.: '. 

En  route 

Executive  departments 

How  charged  when  report  of  survey  is  not  accepted 

In  case  of  deserter,  subvoucher 

Invoiced,  not  received 

Lost  in  engagement 

National  Guard.    (See  National  Guard.) 

Obsolete,  value  30  per  cent  of  published  prices 

Omission  of  report  of  survey  when  authorized 

Ordered  broken  up  or  destroyed,  how  accounted  for 

Orphans '  homes 

Property  lost  willfully  or  through  neglect 

Recovery  of  lost  or  abandoned  property 

Report  of  survey  to  accompany  return,  r. 

Responsibility Jixed 

Rings,  buckles,  scrap,  etc 


Page. 


Paragraph. 


82 

1-37 

186 


Small  arms,  etc 

Surveying  officers — 

R«portepn  Form  No.  196,  A.  G.  O. 

Responsibility  fixed  by 

Survey,  when  required 

Survey,  when  sequired 

Value  of,  is  cost  of  replacing 


105,109 


M. 

Machine  guns,  repairs,  by  whom 

Machine  tools,  etc.: 

Classification  of 

Issued  ordnance  repair  shop 

Machine,  fixtures,  tools,  etc.,  how  accounted  for. 


32 

31 

176 
169 
177 

167, 168 

178, 179 

169 

163,164 
177 
161 
169 
163 
167 

162 

100 
170, 172, 173 

178 
34,35 

146 

161 
159, 160 

114 
170,172, 173 

174 

160 
160 
168 
168 
162 


87 

53 

82 
1S4, 18G,  218 


62290°— 18 9 


130 


Manufacture  of  ordnance  property 

At  arsenals 

Using  articles  originally  intended  for  other  purposes. . . 
Marking: 

Boxes,  packages,  and  crated 

Canteens  and  naversacks — 

In  war,  may  be  transferred  to  another  organization 
Marked,  retained  until  unserviceable 

Projectiles 

Materials: 

For  current  service,  etc.,  classification  of 

Terms  defined 

Materiel  officers 

Mechanics,  repairs: 

Mobile  artillery,  etc 

National  Guard  batteries , 

Record  of  time  kept 

Tools  held  under  memorandum  receipt , 

Medals,  badges,  and  insignia,  issue  of 

Memorandum  receipts 


Military  equipment  and  instructors  at  schools  and  colleges. . . 

Military  reservations  used  for  training  camps 

Mobile  artillery,  alteration  and  improvement  of  (ace  also 

Artillery,  mopile;  National  Guard) 

Moisture,  injurious  effect  on  optical  instruments 

Municipal  corporations,  loans  and  gifts1  to 

Muster  and  pay  rolls: 

Charges  against  enlisted  men '. 

Failure  of  responsible  officer  to  enter  charges 

Report  of  survey,  if  soldier  demands  it 

Muster  of  National  Guard: 

Into  Federal  service '., 

Out  of  Federal  service 

Muster  out: 

Army  officers 

National  Guard  officers...  


N. 

Names  of  arsenals  to  which  requisitions  from  various  depart- 
ments shall  be  made 

National  Guard: 

Alteration  and  improvement  of  seacoast  armament  and 

mobile  artillery 

A  rnwRnent  districts,  mobile  artillery. .' 

Armament,  equipment  and  uniform  of,  same  as  Regular 

Army ....:.. 

Armories  for  safe  keeping  of  ordnance  property. ; 

Artillery — 

Mobile , 

Seacoast 

Blanks.     (See  Blank  forme.) 

Care  and  preservation  of  property 

Classification  of  property  ior  issue  to 

Condemned  or  obsolete  stores  turned  in 

Deficiency  or  loss  in  shipment  to  and  from 

Maneuvers  with  the  Regular  Army 

Muster  into  Federal  service 

Muster  out 


Page. 


Paragraph. 


136-137 
136 
158 

120,123 

110 

110 

68 

53 
156 
225 

57,  87, 88 
94 

87,94 
133 
127 

39, 41, 47 

133, 205 

206,  236 

18 

16 

78 

69 

52,24 

168, 169 
168 
168 

47 
130 

236 
234 


85 


77,78 

77 

7 
76 

77, 78, 94 
78 

79 

53 

10 

176 

153 

47 

130,234 


131 


i       Togo. 


National  Guard — Continued. 

New  type  amis,  equipment,  etc.,  furnished  without 
charge 

No  prescribed  allowances 

Procurement  of  property  for 

Proi)erty  and  disbursing  officer 

Property  issued  to,  remains  property  of  United  States. . , 

Property  stored  in  armories 

Repairs — 

Batteries,  how  made  and  charged 

Cost  of  repairs  and  transportation 

Requisitions  of  governors  for  arms,  etc .'. 

Returns,  blank  forms  (see  also  Returns,  property) 

Sales  to  individual  meml>ers  not  authorized 

Supply  officer's  receipt  for  property  when  mustered  into 
Federal  service ,  — 

Target  practice  at  coast  artillery  poet 

To  turn  in  obsolete  or  condemned  property 

Transfers.    (See  Transfers  of  ordnance  property.) 
National  Rifle  Association.    (See  Rifle  clubs.) 
Nomenclature  for  ordnance  property 

Change,  due  to  manufacture 

Description,  general,  when  permissible 

Incompletearticlefl,  and  components,  how  described. . . 

Indefinite  description,  forbidden , , 

Machines,  fixtures,  tools,  etc.,  not  on  drawings,  how  de- 
scribed  

Returns  and  vouchers,  description  on , 

Nomenclature,  property,  standard: 

Articles  procured  under  contract  to  conform  to , 

Invoices  and  receipts  to  conform  to 

Property.    (See  Property.) 

Requisitions  must  conform  to 

Noncommissioned  officers: 

Ordnance  sergeants. ...; 

Responsible  for  checking  small  arms  out  and  in  racks 

Signal  Corps  sergeant *. . . 

Nonindebtedness,  certificates  of , 


O. 

Observance  of  regulations,  responsibility  for 

Obsolete  property,  lost,  damaged,  or  destroyed 

Officers,  commissioned: 

Detailed  to  investigate  losses  at  educational  institutions, 

maintaining  Reserve  Officers  Training  Corps 

Detail  of,  to  schools  and  colleges 

Horse  equipment — 

Accounted  for  Bemianuually 

Furnished  by  United  States 

Responsibility  and  accountability  for 

Return 

Responsibility  and  accountability  for  property 

Separation  from  service 

Officers,  noncommissioned.    (See  Noncommissioned  officers.) 
Oil  and  grease,  application  to  cartridge  cases  prohibited .... 

Operations',  report  of 

Optical  instruments " 

Ordnance  depots: 

At  training  camps,  requisitions,  to  whom  made 

Badges,  medals,  and  insignia,  issued  direct 

Cartridge  cases,  bandoleers,  clips,  etc.,  to  be  turned  in. . 


Paragraph. 


9 
153 

8 
12 
11 
76 

94,118 

94 

8 

209 
141 

47 

153 

10 


180-189 
189 
183 

182,183 
183 

184" 
194,215 

137 
120 

101 

42 

64 

42 

234,236 


181, 


44 

162 


179 
18 

207 

4 

43 

207 

43,135,225 
234,236 

67 

136 

69 

92 
127 
119 


132 


Ordnance  depots — Continued. 

Condemned  property — 

Ordered  turned  in 

Sales  of . ...» 

Disposition  of  captured  property 

Exchange  of  property 

Expenditures 

Infield,  requisitions,  to  whom  made. .  . 

Mobile  artillery  turned  in  for  repairs. . . 

Reports  required  by  Chief  of  Ordnance. 

Transfers  or  property  to  troops 

Transfers  of  property  between 

Transfers  of  surplus  property  to 

Ordnance  mechanic,     (oee  Mechanics.) 
Ordnance  officers,  accountability  of: 

Coast  defense 


Post 


Requisitions 1 

Record  showing  distribution  of  property. 


Regimental  or  detachment 

Ordnance  sergeant: 

Duties  of 

Noncommissioned  officers  to  act  as 

Responsibility  and  accountability  of 

Orphans'  homes,  soldiers'  and  sailors': 
AHowance,  ammunition — 

Based  on  appropriations  by  Congress 

Deficiency  or  loss  of  property 

Failure  to  render  return 

For  instruction 

Published  in  War  Department  orders 

Bonds 

Care  and  preservation  of  property,  expense  charged  \o. 

Classification  of  property  for  issue  to 

Issue  of  obsolete  property  to 

Requisitions 

Returns 

Target  practice 

Transfers  of  property 


P. 

Pamphlets: 

Descriptive  of  ordnance  materials 

Money  allowances  of  expendable  material  (1970). 


Pecuniary  liability  of  post  commanders. 

Personnel,  semiannual  report  to  Secretary  of  War 

Philippine  Department: 

Requisition  for  seacoast  armament 

Requisition  for  mobile  artillery 

Police  (see  also  District  of  Columbia) '. 

Poet  ordnance  officers: 

Accountability ' 

Arm  lockers  for  safe-keeping  of  small  arms 

Coast  artillery 

Condemned  property,  leas  than.  100  pounds  not  shipped. 
Sales  of 

Memorandum  invoice  and  receipt 

Purchases  by 

Requisitions  for  ordnance  property 

Returns,  how  rendered 

Transfers,  surplus  property 


Paragraph. 


115 

140 

147 

111 

156 

91 

57 

243 

102,103 
104 
106 


39,  41, 

80,  82, 135 

80 

242 

40,41, 

61, 135,  225 

39 

58 

58 

42,58 


152 

178 

237 

152 

152 

23,95 

79 

53 

23 

95 

51 

21 

105 


100 

149 

44 

29 

80,81 

83 

6,  46, 177 

40 

61 

41 

115 

140 

133 

135 

85 

203,209 
106, 107 


133 


Poets: 

Commanding  officers'  responsibility  for  observance  of 
reflations.. 

Garrisoned 

Transfers,  surplus  property  at 

Ungarrisoned 

Powder  and  other  ammunition,  requisitions  to  be  made  in 

advance  of  need 

Power  plant 

Price  lists: 

Expendable  articles  indicated 

Value  of  lost  or  damaged  articles  obtained  from 

Prices,  cost,  to  be  stated  on  invoice 

Prices  of  articles  shown  on  first  division  returns  for  June  30. 
Privates,  preparation  of  reports,  etc.,  at  garrisoned  posts . . . 
Projectiles: 

Inspection  pf 

Marking  and  storing  of 

Requisitions  for t 

Promotion  of  rifle  practice ' 

Property: 

Abandoned  for  want  of  transportation 

Accountability  for 


Accounting  for — 

Belting 

Buildings 

Con  nte  rshaf  ting , 

Hangers 

Heating  plant , 

Lighting  plant 

Machines,  fixtures,  tools,  etc 

Power  plant 

•Pulleys 

Shafting 

Telephone  system . . .- ....-...: 

Accumulations  at  hospital 

Army  service  schools,  returns,  how  rendered 

At  post  no  officer  present .- 

Authorized  expenditures . . . , 

Broken  up  or  destroyed,  when , 

Brought  into  service  by  National  Guard 

Captured  from  enemy 

Care  and  preservation  of 

At  expense  of  institutions,  homes,  etc 

By  coast  defense  ordnance  officers 

Commanding  officers  of  posts  responsible  for 

Optical  instruments 

Small  arms,  saddle  blankets,  time-interval  recorders, 
lead  counterweights,  cartridge  cases  for  cannon.. . 

Soldiers  killed,  property  secured 

Charges  against  enlisted  men 

Civil  employees  intrusted  with 

Classification  of 

Condemned — 

In  Canal  Zone 

In  Hawaiian  Department 

In  Philippine  Division 

In  United  States 

In  war  turned  in 

Loan  or  gifts  to  soldiers'  monument  associations, 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and  municipal  cor- 
porations   -. 

Packing  of 

Sales  of. . 


Page. 


Paragraph. 


44 

68,65 

107 

58 

101 
218 

149 
162 
131 
217 
58 

68 

68 

80 

26,  27, 28 

166 

38,  39, 40, 
41, 45, 48 

186 

186, 218 
186 
186 
186 
186 

184,  218 

218 

186 

186 

186 

74 

203 

42 

154 

170, 172, 173 

47 

147 

64-79 

79 

41 

44 


59 
75 

100, 168, 1C9 
70 
53 

113, 114 

113, 114 

113, 114 

112 

116 


24,52 
117 
140 


134 


Property-continued.  , 

Containers,  vrhen  entered  on  vouchers 

Custodians  of 

Damaged  by  other  t  jan  fair  wear  and  tear 

Damaged,  to  be  taken  up  as  unserviceable 

Deficiency  at  arsenals,  on  taking  inventory 

Deficiency  on  final  settlement,  how  charged 

Educational  institutions,  returns,  how  rendered 

Equipment  C % 

E xcess  or  surplus 

Executive  departments,  responsibility  and  accounta- 
bility for. 

Expendable  articles 

Field  ordnance  depots,  returns,  how  rendered. 

General  description  forbidden,  except  in  special  cases. . 

High  schools,  District  of  Columbia 

Incomplete  articles,  how  accounted  for 

In  field ,  accountability  and  responsibility  for 

Inspectors  of  ordnance,  returns,  how  rendered 

Inventories  at  arsenals .' 

Inventories  by  responsible  officer 

Invoice  and  receipt  for  transfer 

Detachments  of  recruits 

For  general  use ...... 

For  individual  soldier 

Memorandum  when  authorized 

Not  covered  by  invoice 

Official  title  used 

Serial  numbers,  when  used 

Issued  to  institutions  having  units  of  Reserve  Officers' 

Training  Corps 

Loss,  damage,  or  destruction  of v  • » 

Loss,  damage,  or  destruction  of,  by  civil  employees 

Loss  by  educational  institutions,  maintaining  Reserve 

Officers'  Training  Corps 

Lost  by  deserter 

Lost  or  damaged  in  transit 

Lost  or  damaged  on  transfer 

Lost  or  destroyed  by  educational  institutions,  orphans' 

homes,  and  rifle  clubs 

Lost  or  destroyed  by  executive  departments,  or  District 

of  Columbia  police 

Lost  in  engagement 

Lost  \villfully  or  through  neglect 

Lost  in  transit  to  Philippines 

Maintenance  of  equipment  C 

National  Guard — 

Alteration  and  improvement  of  seacoaet  armament 
and  mobile  artillery 

Armories  to  be  provided  for  safe-keeping  of 

Care  and  preservation  of 

Issued,  remains  property  of  United  States 

Maintenance  and  improvement  of  mobile  artillery. . 

Mustered  out 

No  money  credit  for  obsolete  property  replaced 

Procurement  of  property  for * 

Property  and  disbursing  officers  to  account  for 

Repairs  to  battery  material 

Requisition  of  governors  for 

Sales  to  individual  members  not  authorized ." 

Not  previously  accounted  for  or  covered  by  invoice 

Object  of  making  a  return 


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185 

38-52 

160 

163 

217 

31 

204,208 

205 

71 

48 
148 
203 
183 

13 
182 

45 
203 
217 
226 
120 
126 
120 
126 
133 
144 
125 
132 


179 
160 

160,  163, 164 
160 

178 

777 

167 

34,35 

162 

154,155 


78 

76 

79 

11 

77 

130 

10 

8 

12,47 

94,118 

8 

141 
144 
190 


135 


Property — Continued. 
Obsolete,  issues  to — 

Educational  institutions  and  orphans '  homes 

Homes  for  disabled  volunteer  soldiers 

Ordered  abandoned 

Ornamental  purposes 

Post  ordnance  officers'  returns,  how  rendered 

Procured  under  contract '. 

Punishment  for  illegal  sale  of 

Purchases  of 

Quantity  on  hand  is  exhausted 

Recovery  of  lost  or  abandoned — 

To  be  returned  to  responsible  officer  if  known.  .t . . . 

To  be  turned  ove»  to  an  accountable  officer 

Reports  on,  from  whom  required 

Requisitions.     (See  Requisitions  for  ordnance  property.) 
Responsibility  for 


Returns- 
Certificate  of  charges  against  responsible  officer,  to 

Treasury  Department 

False,  penalty — 

Failure  to  make 

Garrisoned  post 

Rifle  clubs,  returns,  how  rendered 

Rings,  buckles,  scrap,  etc 

Sales 


School  of  Musketry,  museum,  returns,  how  rendered... 

Scrap  arising  from  manufacturing  operations 

Serial  numbers  entered  on  vouchers 

Shortage  in  shipment 

Stores -which  may  be  destroyed  on  recommendation  of 
surveying  officer 

Surplus  or  excess 

Taken  up  cm  return — 

Damaged  en  route  or  deficient  in  quantity  invoiced . 
Scrap,  trimmings  of  brass,  etc ,¥ 

Transfers.    (S«e  Transfers  of  ordnance  property.) 

Transferred  out  of  United  States * ^. 

Transfers  to  executive  departments 

Unserviceable,  disposition  of 

Unserviceable,  not  to  bo  taken  into  State  service 

Used  for  experimental  purpoeee  at  arsenals 

When  invoiced  to  officer  by  name. 

Property  and  disbursing  officers 

Loss  or  deficiency  in  shipments  to  and  from  arsenals. . . 

Transfers  to.  upon  muster  out  of  National  Guard 

Protection  of  public  property  and  money. 

Pulleys,  how  accounted  for 

Purchases,  abstract  of  (Forms  Noe.  219,  220) 

Purchases,  ordnance  property 

Arsenals,  reported 

By  coast-defense  ordnance  officers 

By  post  ordnance  officers 

From  executive  departments .\ . 

Inspection  and  receipts 

Involving  payment  by  Auditor  of  War  Department. . . 

Parts,  etc. ,  articles,  accounted  for  separately 

Under  contract,  reports  (Form  No.  1066) 


Page. 


104,109 


106 


23 
25 

160,165 

52 

203 

137 

34, 35, 30 

134,135 

199 

146 

1-16 

242, 243 

38, 39, 40, 41 
45,48,70 


37 

33 

33 

58 

208 

114 

138, 139, 140 
141, 142 
203 
143 
187 
124 

173 
71,145,217 

163 
170, 172, 173 

131 
128 

112, 113, 171 
130 
219 
125 

47, 204, 209 

176 

130 

5 

186 
134 

134-135 
134 
135 
135 
137 
137 
137 
137 
137 


136 


Receipts  and  invoices.     (See  Property,  invoice  and  receipt.) 
Record  kept  by  coast-defense  ordnance  officer  (Form  No.  21) . . 
Regimental  ordnance  officers: 

Accountability  of 

Captured  property 

Condemned  property,  sales  of 

Requisitions 

Pvegiater  of  vouchers.    (See  Blank  forms.) 

Regular  Army,  National  Guard  maneuvers  with 

Regulations: 

Governing  arms  and  ammunition  issued  to  rifle  clubs 
and  schools '. 

Government  of  Ordnance  Department  and  safe-keeping 

of  ordnance  property : 

Repairs: 

Army 

Mechanics.    (See  Mechanics.) 

Mobile  artillery 

National  Guard  batteries 

National  Guard,  cost  of  repairs  and  transportation. .. 

When  not  made  at  post 

Repairs  or  damages,  due  to  abuse  or  negligence 

Reports  of  operations. . .  t 

Reports  of  survey.    (See  Survey,  property  report  of.) 
Reports  on  ordnance  property. 

Reports  by  coast-defense  commanders  (Forma  Nos.  70-A 
and70-B) , 

Reports  by  commanding  officers  of  arsenals. and  ord- 
nance depots  and  by  inspectors  of  ordnance. 

Reports  by  officers  accountable  for  mobile  artillery 
(Form  No.  87) 

Reports  by  supply  officers  of  regimental,  battalion,  or 
other  organization  (Form  No.  84) 

Requisitions  for  blank  forms  and  stationery,  arsenals. . . . 
Requisitions  for  ordnance  property 

Allowances,  anuual  and  semiannual 

Approved  by  governors 

Articles  not  expressly  provided  for. 

Articles  not  standard. : . 

Artillery,  mobile  (Form  No.  386) 

Blank  forms.     (See  Blank  forms.) 

By  one  arsenal  on  another 1.. 

By  telegraph 

By  whom  approved 

By  whom  made  and  forwarded 

Chief  ordnance  officer — 

Approved  by,  in  war  or  emergency 

Approve  only  for  quantities  authorized 

Issue  stores  on  hand  first , 

Where  sent,  when  approved 


Cleaning,  preserving,  and  marking  supplies. 
Coast  defense  ordnance  officers 


Commanding  officers,  arsenals,  fill  only  to  extent  author- 
ized  

Educational  institutions 

Emergency 

Field  Artillery.    (See  Artillery,  mobile.) 

Foot  and  mounted  troops  (Form  No.  386) 

Forwarded,  for  articles  not  procurable  at  one  areenal.. . 

Forwarded  to  designated  arsenals 

From  field  ordnance  depot  made  direct  on  source  of 
supply 4 


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242 

39 

147 

140 

83,  85, 89 

153 


57, 87,  8$ 
94 

94,118 

87 

30 

136, 214 

242, 243 
442 
,243 
242 

242 
99 

80-101 
81,«82 
f20 
-85 
84,92 
83,93 


93 
85 
85 
85 
82 
80,81,82 

86 

95, 96,  97 
90,93 

93 
86 
85 

91 


137 


Paragraph. 


Requisitions  for  ordnance  property — Continued. 

In  excess  of  prescribed  allowances. .: 

In  form  of  invoice  and  receipt.... 

In  war 

Letter  and  note  paper ; , 

National  Guard 

Nomenclature  conformed  to 

Orally  submitted,  when 

Ordnance  depot  at  training  camp , 

Orphans' homes , 

Pamphlets 

Parte  of  instruments .• 

Powder  and  other  ammunition,  made  in  advance  of  need 

Regimental  ordnance  officer 

Repairs  by  commanding  officer,  for  mobile  artillery 

Rifle  clubs 

Schools 

Seacoast  armament 

Seacoast  armament  (Form  No.  388).. .. 

Stationery. 

Requisitions  of  governors  for  arms 

Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps /.. , 

Responsibility: 

Arsenals  and  ordnance  depots 

Certificate  of  charges  against  responsible  officer,   to 
Treasury  Department 1 : 

Civil  employees 

Coast  defense  ordnance  officers. ..'..:.... , 

Commanding  officers — 

Arsenals  and  other  ordnance  establishments 

Companies,  troops,  batteries,  and  detachments 

Posts 

District  of  Columbia.     (Set  District  of  Columbia. ) 

Educational   institutions.     (See    Educational    institu- 
tions.) 

Enlisted  men  for  small  arms. 

Executive  department.    (See  Executive  department.) 

For  safe-keeping  of  articles  readily  disposed  of. 

Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.    (See  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic.) 

High  schools.    (SSf  High  schools.) 

In  field ; , 

Loss  of  small  arms  charged  against  responsible  officer 

National  Guard.    (See  National  Guard.) 

Officers — 

Horse  equipment  (Form  No.  18-A) 

Ordnance,  poet,  regimental,  or  coast  defense , 

When  none  at  post 

Ordnance  sergeants ^ 

Orphans'  homes.     (See  Orphans'  homes.) 

Post  ordnance  officers .' , 

Property  disbursing  officer 

Rifle  clubs.    (See  Rifle  clubs.) 

Signal  Corps  sergeants 

Stores — » 

For  drill  and  instruction , 

For  ornamental  purposes , 

Loaned 

Transfer  on  memorandum  receipt . . ; . 

Responsible  officer. .' 


108 


Failure  to  enter  charges  on  muster  and  pay  rolls . 
Precautions  for  saf c-1-.eeping  of  property «. . . 


84,86 
89 

89,90 
99 

8,94 

101 

89 

92 

95 

100 

81 

101 

83 

87, 88, 89 
98 
97 

81,82 
93 

99,100 

8 

14, 15, 179 


37 
70 
41 

38 

39 
42,44 


59 


45 
60,61 


43 

39,  40, 41, 42 

42 

42,58 

40 

47 

42 

51 
62 
52 

.    133 

59,  60, 61, 

63,  72, 146 

168 

174 


138 


Responsible  officer — Continued. 

Required  to  show  loss,  etc.,  was  due  to  unavoidable 
causes. : 

To  acquaint  himself  with  facts  as  to  expenditures 

To  be  charged,  when  report  of  survey  not  accepted 

Returns,  property: 

Army  service  schools .-. 

Arsenals. .  


Articles  having  the  same  nomenclature  and  trader  dif- 
ferent classification 

Articles  aft  an  arsenal  for  issue,  also  used  in  current 

service * 

Certificate 

Certificate   of  charge   against   responsible   officer,    to 

Treasury  Department 

Coast  defense  ordnance  officers 

Description  and  preparation  of — 

For  arsenals,  first  division 

For  arsenals,  second  division 

Transfer  from  one  return  to  another 

Value  of  property 

Educational  institutions. .' 


Failure  to  render. 


False,  penalty 

Field  prdnance  depots 

Forms.    (See  Blank  forms.) 

From  whom,  and  when  required. .- 

Garrisoned  post 

Horse  equipments,  officer's  individual 

Incomplete  articles,  how  accounted  for 

Inventories 


Inspectors  of  ordnance 

Miscellaneous. 

National  Guard. \ 

Nomenclature  on 

Object  of 

Orphans'  homes,  by  whom  rendered 

Philippine  Department 

Post  ordnance  officers 

Preparation,  description  of  property  on 

Prescribed  nomenclature  to  be  used  in  preparation  of . . . 
Prices  of  articles  shown  on  first  division  returns  for 

June  30 

Record  cards 

Regimental  or  battalion  ordnance  officer 

Register  of,  vouchers.    (See  Blank  forms.) 

Rendition,  forms,  and  time " 

Rifle  clubs 

School  of  Musketry 

Schools. 

Semiannual . .  ... .', 


Serial  numbers  of  arms  on  vouchers 

Statements  of  expenditures,  various  forms. 

Time  of  forwarding 

Transfers  on — 

Accountability 

From  one  division  to  another 

In  classes,  articles  at  arsenals,  etc 

Surpluses  of  deficiences 


Pagt 


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159 
154 
161 

203 

191, 192, 
193,   223 

220 

220 
197,  218, 225 

37 
|94, 195 

191. 192,  217 

191. 193,  218 
202,  221 

219 

50,  51; 

204.208 

33,  237, 

238,  239 

33 

203 

223 
58 

207,209 

182, 183,  220 

224, 225, 

226,227 

203 

223 

47,223 

181, 182, 183 

190 

51 

223 

203 

181 

181 

217 

218,  222 
205 

192, 193 

50,208 

203 

50 

192, 193, 

194,  197 

188 

156 

223 

222 
202 
189 
222 


139 


Page. 


Paragraph. 


Returns,  property — Continued. 

United  States  property  and  disbursing  officers 

Vouchers.    (See  Vouchers.) 

When  due 

Returns,  property,  settlement  of , . . .' 

By  agent 

Certificates  of  nonindebtodness 

Circumstances  of  recovery  of  lost  or  abandoned  prop- 
erty to  be  fully  related '. 

Communications  in  regard  to 

Corrections  or  explanation  by  custodian 


Delay  in  rendition 

Errors  or  irregularities. 


Examination,  scope  of 

Failure  to  correct  errors  or  irregularities , 

Failure  to  render  return — 

Accountable  officer : % 

Educational  institution 

Orphans'  homes 

Rifle  clubs 

Heirs,  final  payment  to 

Memorandum  receipts 

Reoj>ened,  later  evidence  of  failure  to  account 

Separation  from  service — 

Death 

Final  payment 

Muster  out 

Resignation 

Stoppage  of  pay,  failure  to  render  return 

Vouchers.    (See  Vouchers.) 

Rifle  clubs 

Expenditures  of  ammunition 

Failure  to  render,  returns 

Loss  of  property "..... 

.    Returns,  how  rendered , 

Rifle  practice,  encouragement  of 

RiJle  ranges,  constructed  with  funds  provided  by  Congress, 

for  general  military  use 

Rings,  buckles,  straps,  etc. : 

When  taken  up  on  return 

Whore  shipped 

Rock  Island  Arsenal,  brass  scrap  to  be  turned  in  to 


S. 


Saddle  blankets,  safe-keeping  of. 
Safe-keeping  property: 

Arm  racks  and  lockers... 


Infield.: 

In  garrison 

National  Guard,  armories  for. 
Precautions 


Saddle  blankets. 
Small  arms... 


Sales  of  ordnance  property 

Abstract  of  (Form  No.  322) 

Accounted  for 

Certificate  from  purchaser  (Form  No.  147). 


105,100 


204,209 

223 
228-241 

2-10 
234.  2JG 


229,  230,  231 

228,  229, 

230,231 

231 

228 

229,230| 

231,  237 
22* 

232,  237 


2:7 
±',7 

238, 2-39 
236 
236 
233 

236 

234,236 
234,235 
235, 236 

232 

26, 27, 50, 98 
157 

238,239 
178 

2C8 
28 

28 

170,172,173 
114 
114 


59,66,174 

61, 62, 63, 

64,174 

63 

G6 

76 

59,60, 

61,62, 

63,64,66 

59,66 

59,60,61, 

62, 63,  64 

138-142 

138 

138, 141 
139 


140 


Sales  of  ordnance  property — Continued. 

Condemned — 

Advertisement  of  sale . 

Arsenals  and  ordnance  depots 

Post,  regimental;  or  other  officers. 

Expenses  in  connection  with '. 

Must  be  reported  in  month  made 

Proceeds 

To  individual  members,  National  Guard,  not  authorized 
Schools.    (See  Educational  institutions.) 

School  of  Musketry,  museums 

Scrap: 

Arising  from  manufacturing  operations 

Brass  (rings,  buckles,  etc.) 

Utilization  of '. 

Seacpast  artillery.     (See  Artillery,  seacoast. ) 

Sealing,  chests  or  boxes 

Sealing  strips,  furnished  by  Springfield  Armory. 

Sergeant,  Ordnance: 

Duties  of 

Noncommissioned  officers  1x5  act  as. 

Responsibility  and  accountability  of ........... 

Serial  numbers,  when  used 

Settlement  of  accounts  of  company  commander 

Settlement  of  returns.     (See  Returns,  property,  settlement 
of.) 

Shafting,  how  accounted  for... 

"Shell  and  flame  "stenciled  on  boxes.. 

Shipment  of  property: 

Boxes,  packages,  crates  to  be  described 

Marking  of  boxes . 

Shipping  list,  minor  articles  not  given  in  detail. 

Shipping  list,  when  omitted.  ....*. ...,.- . .« 

Shipping  list,  when  required........... 

Shipping  list: 

Minor  articles  not  to  be  given  in  detail 

To  accompany  invoice  and  receipt . . 

When  omitted 

When  required 

Shortage,  receipt  to  cover  actual  quantity  and  condition  of 

property 

Sick  or  wounded  soldiers: 

Ammunition  on. 

Arms  and  equipment  of. 

At  hospital 

When  returned  to  organization 

Signal  Corps  sergeant,  responsibility  and  accountability  of. . 

Signal  Corps  stations 

Pma.ll  arms: 

Ammunition,  allowances  for 

Charged  against  responsible  officer 

Loss  of... 

May  be  left  on  battle  field  by  wounded  or  sick  soldiers. 

Responsibility  of  enlisted  men  for. 

Return  of,  after  completion  of  military  duty 

Safe-keeping  of -~ - 


Serial  numbers  and  model  of,  indicated  on  vouchers. 
Soldiers: 

Detached,  personal  equipment  of , 

In  hospital 

Killed -- 

Sick  or  wounded.' * 


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140 
140 
140 
141 
138 

138, 141 
142- 

203 

143, 158 

114 

172, 173 

122 
122 

58 
68 

.42,58 

132, 187, 188 

32 


186 
123 

120 
120 
121 
121 
121 

121 
120 
121 
121 

124 

72 
72 
74 
73 
42 
42 

150, 152, 153 
60 
174 
72 
63 
65 

59, 60, 61, 

62,83,64 

188 

126 
73 
75 
72 


141 


Soldiers' and  sailors' orphans' homes.     (See  Orphans'  homes, 
soldiers'  and  sailors1.) 

Soldiers'  monument  associations 

Spare  parts  for  cannon  etc.,  not  to  be  dropped  from  certificate 

of  expenditure -. 

Special  regulations  governing  issue  of  rifles  and  ammunition 

to  rifle  dubs  and  schools . ... 

Statement  of  charges  (Form  No.  602,  A.  G.  O.) 

Serial  numbers  and  model  of  arms,  indicated  on .... 

Stationery '. 

Stenciling  ' '  Shell  and  flame  "  on  boxes 

Stores.    (See  Property.) 

' '  Stores,  ordnance,  and  ordnance,  "  definition 

Storing: 

Optical  instruments ." 

Projectiles 

Suit  for  delinquency. ..,., 

Superintendent  of  police.    (See  Police.) 
Supplies.  .  (See  also  Property): 

Cleaning  and  repairing,  allowance  of 

Deficiency  due  to  unavoidable  accident 

Loss,  damage,  or  wrongfully  disposed  of 

Term  defined •. 

Supply  officer:  ^  ^ 

Accountability . 

Arm  lockerd  for  safe  keeping  of  email  arms. 

Memorandum  invoice  and  receipt 

Receipt  for  stores  to  United  States  property  and  dis- 
bursing officer 

Reports  of  Form  No.  84 

Requisitions  for  mobile  artillery , 

Requisitions  for  ordnance  property 

Spare  parts  preservatives,  etc.,  to  be  obtained  OR  Form 

No.  604,  A.  G.  O 

Surgeons  to  receipt  for  arms  and  equipment  of  soldiers  in 

hospital 

Surplus  property: 

Found  by  inventory  at  arsenalo 

Found  on  hand .'.. 

Not  on  return 

Reported  by  inspector •. 

Transfers  between  organizations  at  a  post 

Transfers  between  post  ordnance  office  and  organizations 
at  the  post... 

Transfers  between  posts 

Transfers,  in  field 

Transfers  to  arsenals  or  ordnance  depots 

Surveying  officer: 

Appointed  to  make  inventory  of  property  abandoned  or 
destroyed  during  campaign ^ 

Deficiency  in^stores  invoiced 

Loss  or  definiency  in  shipments  to  and  from  National 
Guard 

Property,  invoiced,  not  received  within  reasonable  time. 

Reports  of - 

Responsibility  fixed  by,  for  losses 

Unserviceable  property,  acting  on 

When  not  practicable  to  appoint 

Survey,  report  of  (property): 

Abandoned  or  destroyed 

Certificate  showing  destruction 

In  case  of  deserter 

Not  accepted,  value  of  property  charged 

Requirements  of 


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24, 52, 105 
149 

157 
169 
188, 
99,100 
123 

180 

69 

68 

'239, 241 


149 
32 

34, 35, 36 
156 

40 

61 

133 

47 

242 

83 

85 

155 

74 

217 

145 

71 

71 

107 

107 
107 
109 
106 


J65 
163 

176 
163 
160 

160, 176 
173 
165 

165 
173 
169 
161 
174 


142 


Survey,  report  of  (property) — Continued. 

Serial  numbers  and  model  of  arms,  indicated  on 

Stores  not  received  within  reasonable  time 

When  common  earner  or  person  not  in  military  service 

is  held  responsible , 

When  demanded  by  soldier 

When  required , 


T. 

Target  material  issued  to  schools  and  orphans'  homes. 
Target  practice  (see  also  Ammunition): 

Allowances,  ammunition  for , 

Educational  institutions,  requisitions  for 

Projectiles  for 

Telephone  system ; 

Time-interval  recorders,  safe-keeping  of 

Tools  and  implements,  classification  of 

Tools  not  on  drawings,  how  described 

Training  camps 

Transfers,  abstract  of 

Transfers  of  ordnance  property 

Accountability,  arsenals 

At  post 

Badges,  medals,  and  insignia  issued 

Between  arsenals  and  ordnance  depots 

Boxes  or  chests — 

Contents  indicated  on 

Sealed 

Canteens  and  haversacks 

Cartridge  cases,  fired  bandoleers,  clips,  etc 

Coast-defense  ordnance  officers , 

Condemned — 

Brass  scrap 


In  Canal  Zone 

In  Hawaiian  Department : 

Iii  Philippine  Division *... 

In  United  States.  / 

In  war t 

Packing  of * 

Shipment  of,  under  100  pounds 

Description  of,  when  required 

Detachment  of  recruits 

District  of  Columbia 

Educational  institutions 

Empty  packing  boxes  for  caliber  .30  ammunition 

Exchanged,  arising  from  improvements 

Executive  departments 

From  arsenals i 

From  one  form  of  nsrtttra  to  another 

Fjom  stock  to  current  service 

Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

In  peace,  troops  in  garrison  or  in  field 

Invoice  and  receipt.     (See  Property.) 

Involving  settlement  by  Treasury  Department 

In  war  or  emergency .« 

Loss  or  deficiency  in,  between  arsenals  and  National 

Guard 

Memorandum  invoice  and  receipt 

National  Guard — 

By  whom  authorized 

From  arsenals 

Muster  out  of  service 

Repairs  to  batteries 


Pagi-. 


188 
163 

164 

168 

160, 161 


21 

150 

95 

68 

186 

59,  G6, 174 

53 

184 

16,92 

189 

102-133 

222 

44, 107 

127 

90,104 

123 
122 
110 
119 
201 

114, 170, 

172, 173 

113, 114 

113, 114 

113,114 

112 

116 

117 

115 

120 

126 

105, 130 
105 
119 
111 

128, 132 

105, 132 

202, 221 

189 

105 

102 

132 
103 

176 
133 

105 

105, 132 
130 
118 


143 


Transfers  of  ordnance  property — Continued. 

Orphans'  homes t 

Out  of  United  States 

Personal  equipment  of  enlisted  men 

Property  invoiced  by  name  or  official  title 

Receipting  for 

Seacoast  armament 

Serial  numbers  entered  on  vouchers 

Serviceable  to  unserviceable,  class 

Snipping  list,  when  omitted 

Shipping  list,  when  required 

Shortage  or  loss  in  shipment 

Soldiers'  monument  associations 

Staff  Department  of  Army 

States  and  Territories 

Surplus 

To  contractor. 

Transportation : 

Loss,  damage,  or  shortage  in 

Loss  or  damage  in,  to  Philippine  Islands 

Packing  of  condemned  property  for 

When  charged  to  National  Guard 

Moa us  of,  owned  by  Government . 

Treasury  Department: 

Certificate  of  charge*  against  responsible  officer. 

Transfers,  involving  settlement  of 

Troops: 

In  war,  condemned  property  turned  in 

Operating  in  field 


Page. 


Precautions  of  safe-keeping  property. 

Requisitions,  Field  Artillery  and  foot  and  mounted.  . 
Transfers,  property  to,  in  field ,. 


IT. 

Ungarrisoned  posts,  ordnance  sergeants  to  perform  duties  of 

post  ordnance  officers 

Unit  supply  officer.    (Set  Supply  officer.) 
Universities.    (See  Educational  institutions.) 
Unserviceable  property: 

Condemned  and  ordered  turned  in 

Due  to  neglect  by  educational  institutions  maintaining 
reserve  officers  training  camps .• ; 

Horse  equipment  issued  to  District  of  Columbia  police. 

In  war,  where  turned  in 

Not  to  be  taken  into  State  service 

Rings,  buckles,  scrap,  etc. ,  to  be  cut  from  and  turned  in . 

Spare  parts  of  cannon,  etc.,  to  be  submitted  to  inspector. 

Special  inspector  to  act  on  ._ 

Transfers  from  serviceable 

When  acted  on,  by  surveying  officer 


V. 
Vouchers: 

Abstract  of  purchases 

Abstract  of  sales 

Abstract  of  transfers: 

Affidavit  and  certificate  aa  to  want  of  transportation . 
Articles  entered  according  to  nomenclature  and  class. 

Binders  for 

Captured  property 

Certificates,  accumulations  of  scraps 


Paragraph. 


105 
131 
126 
125 

124. 125, 163 
108 

187, 188 
189 
121 
121 
124 
105 
132 
130, 132 

106, 107, 109 
129 

124 
162 
117 
94 
115 

37 
128, 132 

116 

45, 57, 63, 

89, 102, 103 

174 

93 

102, 103, 109 


58 


112,113 

179 
4G 
116 
130 
114 
148 
171 
189 
178 


134,135 
138 
189 
166 
215 
212 
147 
113 


144: 


Page. 

Paragraph. 

Vouchers—  Continued. 
Certificates  as  to  breaking  up  condemned,  articles  at 
arsenals..       .* 

172 
/         148,  154 
I         155,  158 
137 

175 
145 

144 
146 
185 
215 
157 
212 
210,  211 
210,  211,  214 
170 

126 
120 

126 
124 
210 
216 
195 
181,  182,  183 
195,  217 
213,  217 
181,  217 
167 
210,  211 

136 
161,  164, 
165,  173 
187,  188 
222 
187 
129 
128 
229 
195 

116 
90 
93 
103 

72 

72 
74 
73 

Certificates  of  expenditure  

• 

Certificates  of  inspection  and  receipt  

Certificates,    loss,    damage,  or    destruction    by    civil 
employee  

Certificates,  property  found  in  excess  '.  

Certificates,  property  not  previously  accounted  for  or 
covered  by  invoice  '.  

Certificates,  recovery  property  lost  or  abandoned  

Containers,  when  entered  on  

Description  of  articles  on  

Expenditures,  ammunition,  by  rifle  clubs  and  schools.  . 

Fastened  securely  together  .        .        

How  designated  

How  executed  

Inventory  and  inspection  report  

Invoices  and  receipts  — 
Equipment  in  possession  of  recruit  detachments 
(Forms  NOB.  152-D  and  153).  

108 
104,  109 

"  104,108 

General  (Form  No.  600,  A.  G.  O.)  

Personal  equipment,  detached  soldiers  (Form  No. 
152  i                  ..              

Shortages  on                 ..     ..   

Issue  and  receipt,  defined  i.  

« 

Method  of  preventing  duplication  of  numbers  

'  . 

Nomenclature  on.                                      _.-....         .   .. 

. 

Numbered  and  entered  on  return  

Page  numbers  of  return  entered  on                              ... 

Property  lost  in  engagement  (affidavit)  

* 

Receipt  and  issue  description  of      .................... 

Register  of.    (See  Blank  forms.) 

w. 

War  or  emergency: 

1 

Wounded  or  sick  soldiers: 

At  hospital                                v  (-  

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